News: Just In: Maya Angelou dies today at age 86, found dead in her home

According to WGHP in Winston-Salem, NC, Mayor Allen Joines confirmed that Angelou was found deceased by her caretaker. A resident of the city, she also served as the Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University.
Some of Angelou's final public messages came via social media.
"And now we come to the day where we can honor the brave men and women who have risked their lives to honor our country and our principles," she posted to Facebook on May 26. "Our history is rife with citizens who care and who are courageous enough to say we care for those who went before us."
On May 23, she wrote, "Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God" on Twitter.
Angelou's death follows recent cancellations of public appearances due to failing health. She backed out of attending the 2014 MLB Beacon Awards Luncheon last week, according to the Associated Press, and last month canceled an event in Fayetteville, AR, after a hospital visit.
She was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her 1971 poetry collection Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die.One of the Civil rights advocate's most popular works is I Know why the Cage Bird Sings.
The 1969 memoir made her the first African American woman best-seller. Angelou recited her poem On the Pulse of Morning during Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993.
In 2011, President Barack Obama presented her with Medal of Freedom.
Other writings included the inspirational essays Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now (1994) and Letter to My Daughter (2008). Angelou also published health cookbooks including Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories With Recipes (2005) and Great Food, All Day Long (2010).
A singer of calypso music and involved in modern dance, her first album was Miss Calypso, produced in 1957. Among other accolades bestowed on her were three Grammys, the National Medal of Arts and the Lincoln Medal.
She was born Marguerite Annie Johnson in St. Louis on April 4, 1928. Given the nickname Maya by her brother, she took the name Angelou when she began performing in the 1950s, a variation on her first husband's name, Tosh Angelos.
#RIP ma'am, your legacy lives on!