Looking back at Maya Angelou's life
May 28, 2014, 02:57 PM
Poet, author and civil rights activist Maya Angelou has died at the age of 86.
One of America's leading literary voices of the last 50 years, Angelou is best-known for her 1969 memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
This is an excerpt of Maya Angelou reading one of her best known poems ..' I rise'