An accomplished film director, philosopher, author and poet, Suzy Kassem was born in Toledo, Ohio. Influenced by her Egyptian heritage, Kassem is known to draw parallels between Eastern and Western civilizations...

Born in 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri, Maya Angelou spent the majority of her teenage years in Stamps, Arkansas. In the 1930s to 1940s, just before the civil rights movement, African Americans in Stamps,...