Celebrating Black History Month

Growing up with a speech impediment and an auditory processing disorder, Amanda had hills to climb. Through poetry, she found her voice, and became...

Maya Angelou spent much of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas. After a traumatic event at the age of eight, she stopped speaking for five years. How...

Born in Missouri in 1928, Maya Angelou had a difficult childhood. Jim Crow laws segregated blacks and whites in the South. Her family life was unst...