Mayoral candidate Maya Wiley has made her work expanding high-speed Internet access to poorer New Yorkers a central part of her case to voters that she can run City Hall. But a key piece of that ...

Maya Angelou’s scheduled visit to Rochester Institute of Technology on Monday, March 25, is postponed due to poor weather in the nation’s heartland. Winter storm Virgil is moving through the Midwest ...

“An Evening with Maya Angelou” has been rescheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 30, at the Gordon Field House and Activities Center at Rochester Institute of Technology. Those who originally registered ...

The ancient Maya civilization of Central America left behind an intricate and mysterious hieroglyphic script, carved on monuments, painted on pottery, and drawn in handmade bark-paper books. For ...

Famed poet Maya Angelou is to receive the Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama this month. She will also be hosting her first-ever public radio program. “Maya Angelou’s Black History Month ...

NOVA chronicles the 200-year worldwide quest by linguists, mathematicians, artists, architects, archeologists, and others to decipher the Maya hieroglyphs. describes where the Maya region is located.

Maya artisans and knowledge keepers from Guatemalan and diasporic communities will join with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian to celebrate Maya culture and history at events in ...

For decades, the legendary Maya Plisetskaya (1925–2015)—muse to choreographers Yuri Grigorovich, Alberto Alonso, and Maurice Béjart—was synonymous with Russian ballet. A star in the truest sense of ...

The coin honoring the late poet and civil rights activist went into circulation Monday and pays tribute to her 1970 autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou is making history once ...

Mayan culture and language are the focus of a new weekly program at KBBF. “Rescatando Nuestra Cultura y Tradiciones” premiered June 20. It is aired in Maya language and hosted by Francisco Icalá every ...