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Emmy win for Viola Davis…First Black actress to claim top drama acting honors

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Long-standing barriers fell at Sunday's Emmy Awards as Viola Davis became the first non-white actress to claim top drama acting...

Jamaica literary festival draws top-flight authors

TREASURE BEACH, Jamaica (AP) — Best-selling authors take to a seaside stage, bottles of Red Stripe beer in hand. Budding writers line up to...

Maya Angelou remembered for her universal appeal

NEW YORK (AP) — You didn't have to love books or share her background or even know a lot about Maya Angelou to feel...

Reactions to the death of Maya Angelou

NEW YORK (AP) — Politicians, media figures and fellow artists are paying tribute to Maya Angelou, the author of "I Know Why the Caged...

Excerpts of the poetry and prose of Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou's words spanned worlds: From the inner city to the presidential stage, from her painful childhood to a soaring career as a poet,...

University: Poet, author Maya Angelou dies at 86

NEW YORK (AP) — Maya Angelou was gratified, but not surprised by her extraordinary fortune. "I'm not modest," she told The Associated Press in 2013....

Diversity an issue as national book convention opens

NEW YORK (AP) — Three years ago, guest speaker Mindy Kaling joked that publishing's annual national convention, BookExpo America, resembled "a high school reunion...

Author Cuoto from Mozambique wins $50,000 prize

NEW YORK (AP) — Fiction writer and poet Mia Cuoto (CUE'-toe) of Mozambique has won a $50,000 prize for lifetime achievement.

Maya Angelou to receive honorary book award

In this May 20, 2010, file photo, author Maya Angelou socializes during a garden party at her home in Winston-Salem, N.C. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond, File) NEW YORK (AP) — The book world is finally honoring Maya Angelou.

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