#Maya Angelou

What I Learned About Life After Traveling with Maya Angelou for Eight Weeks, by Dain Dunston  I first met Maya Angelou in a hotel in Dallas. The year was 1992 and she was in a room on the fifth floor, with the curtains drawn. They were drawn because she had a fear of heights, and we were meeting in

Author: Kim Willis / Source: USA TODAY Beyonce surprised fans with a trailer for her new Netflix documentary about her iconic Coachella performance called “Homecoming.” USA Today Beychella is coming to Netflix. On Monday, the streaming service shared the first trailer for Beyoncé’s upcoming

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings In the spring of 2018, after the improbable success of the inaugural show in 2017, I once again joined forces with Pioneer Works and The Academy of American Poets to host The Universe in Verse — an evening of science-inspired poems read by artists,

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavour to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by millions of people,” Olivia Laing wrote in her lyrical exploration of loneliness and the search for belonging. Our need

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings In this annual review, as usual, “best” is a composite measure of what I most enjoyed thinking and writing about, and what readers most enjoyed reading and sharing. Here is to the intellectual and spiritual electricity of the eclectic, and to a