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http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-27606776#TWEET1141222
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-27606776#TWEET1141222
Poet, author and activist Maya Angelou has died at the age of 86.
One of America's leading literary voices of the last 50 years, Angelou was best-known for her 1969 memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
It was the first of seven volumes of autobiography that traced her life from a childhood of abuse and oppression in the Deep South in the 1930s.
The news was confirmed to the BBC by the Mayor's office in her home town of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.