Remembering Maya Angelou

Legendary American author, poet, playwright and activist Maya Angelou has died at 86.  Her family says she "passed quietly" at her North Carolina home on Wednesday. Angelou rose to fame after writing about her life as an impoverished black girl growing up in the segregated south.  VOA's Mary Alice Salinas looks at her life and career that inspired people around the world.

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