REBROADCAST: Maya Angelou on 'A Song Flung Up to Heaven'

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Michael Krasny

Dec 31, 2020 at

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We’ll listen back to Michael Krasny’s 2002 conversation with famed poet, author and civil rights activist Maya Angelou, who died in 2014. They discussed “A Song Flung Up to Heaven”, the sixth book in her series of autobiographies which started with “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”. (originally broadcast May 8, 2002)

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