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Maya Angelou
May 29, 2014
Mark Oppenheimer
Why Do People Call Ms. Maya Angelou "Dr. Maya Angelou"?
Against title inflation in America
May 28, 2014
John McWhorter
Saint Maya
Angelou's flawed books helped relieve black writers of the burden of representing their race
May 18, 2011
James Downie
Oprah Winfrey's True Popularity
September 14, 2009
John McWhorter
What Tyler Perry and Bill Cosby Have in Common: On the Occasion of "I Can Do Bad All By Myself"
April 13, 2007
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