For the 30th annual National Poetry Month, we honor the late poet/activist Maya Angelou born on this day in 1928. We also mark the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1968 assassination, even as we celebrate resilience and renewal on Passover and Easter.
Remembering and Rising

Maya Angelou reciting her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" on inauguration day,1993. (PHOTO: William J. Clinton Presidential Library)

