Maya Angelou on the Black Side of the Tracks

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In this clip from the 1982 series Creativity, the esteemed poet Maya Angelou, who died today at the age of 86, travels with Bill Moyers to her childhood town of Stamps, Arkansas, where she experienced the brutality of racial discrimination, but was also fortified by the values of the traditional African-American family, community and culture.

See more of Bill’s conversation with Maya Angelou.

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