Looking back at Maya Angelou's life

May 28, 2014, 02:57 PM

Poet, author and civil rights activist Maya Angelou has died at the age of 86.

One of America's leading literary voices of the last 50 years, Angelou is best-known for her 1969 memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

This is an excerpt of Maya Angelou reading one of her best known poems ..' I rise'