Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou has been taken to a Los Angeles hospital. The hospitalization of Maya Angelou was first reported by TMZ.com, and while there are limited details at this point, it is already sad that such a great woman is having to deal with something health related. Maya Angelou is by far one of the greatest poets of our time, and it has been a treat to see her perform many times. The news that Maya Angelou is in the hospital came out late on Saturday evening, as she was in Los Angeles for an awards ceremony in her honor. It was a shocking revelation by TMZ, and the hope is that more news on her condition comes out through the night.

Dr. Maya Angelou was born in 1928, and has become a poet, best-selling author, actress, and above everything else a civil rights activist in her lifetime. She isn’t known just as an influential woman, but one of the most heralded voices of the last few generations. Angelou worked with Dr. Martin Luther King and served as the Northern Coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In a tragic coincidence, King was assassinated on her birthday. Soon after that, she worked with novelist friend James Baldwin to write what would later become known as I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

It is beyond remarkable how much that Maya Angelou has been able to accomplish already in her lifetime, and the accolades just don’t seem to stop. Everything she has been awarded with she has earned, and she is even deserving of more than she has received. Among some of the most notable awards she has received over the years is a Pulitzer Prize nomination for a Georgia, Georgia that she wrote the screenplay and composed the score for back in 1972. She acted in Roots and Poetic Justice, and has narrated more films and documentaries than can be mentioned. Angelou also has a Presidential Medal of the Arts, a Lincoln Medal, and three Grammy Awards to her name.