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Known for:	Roots, America's Dream, Madea's Family Reunion
Birth name:	Marguerite Annie Johnson
Birthday:	4 April 1928, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Height:	6' (1.83 m)

AP - Even for a venue as grand as New York's Carnegie Hall, there was a pretty dazzling concentration of star power at Glamour magazine's Women of the Year awards.
AP - There was a huge pop star, a tennis phenom, a top fashion designer, a key U.S. diplomat and three Beatle wives.
Esteemed author and poet DR MAYA ANGELOU has hit out at reports she was hospitalised on Saturday evening (03Oct09).TMZ.com reported the Pulitzer-nominated writer was taken to hospital early on Saturday night, just before she was to be honoured at the BraveHeart Awards in Los Angeles in recognition of her work.However, the 81 year old was
Esteemed author and poet DR MAYA ANGELOU has been hospitalised after she fell ill just hours before collecting an award for her work, according to reports.TMZ.com reports the Pulitzer-nominated writer was taken to hospital early on Saturday evening (03Oct09), the night she was to be honoured at the BraveHeart Awards in Los Angeles.Angelou, 81, is
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TMZ has learned Maya Angelou was taken to the hospital early Saturday evening. She was scheduled to be honored at the BraveHeart Awards in Los Angeles. Story developing ... ...

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QUEEN LATIFAH delivered a poem penned by MAYA ANGELOU in tribute to MICHAEL JACKSON at the King of Pop’s memorial in Los Angeles.Paying her own tribute to the late pop star at the Staples Center on Tuesday (07Jul09), Latifah told the gathered 18,000 friends, family members, fans and celebrities, "Michael was the biggest star on
AP - Poet Maya Angelou, who recited one of her works at Bill Clinton's first inauguration, won't be on hand when Barack Obama takes the oath of office. But she says she won't miss a minute of it.
AP - Upon his election in 1992, Bill Clinton — affectionately referred to as the nation's first black president — asked Maya Angelou to compose a poem and read it at his inauguration. Angelou feels a new poem welling up inside her following Barack Obama's election, but she does not expect another command performance.
AP - TV producer Norman Lear and author Maya Angelou will be the 2008 recipients of the Marian Anderson Award, which honors artists whose leadership benefits humanity.
E! Online - Don Imus' right-hand man is following his former boss into the radio ether.

Longtime Imus in the Morning executive producer Bernard McGuirk was fired Thursday for what theoretically could be characterized as conspiracy to emit racist and misogynistic remarks. 

McGuirk, the "bald-headed stooge" to Imus' "wrinkled-up old buzzard," was actually the first participant in the now-infamous Apr. 4 conversation about the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship to utter the word "ho's," therefore prompting Imus' "nappy-headed ho's" remark about Rutgers University's team. 

But while Imus was fired by CBS Radio on Apr. 12, McGuirk was merely "absent" from the a.m. airwaves this week, during which fellow WFAN-AM personalities Mike Francesa and Chris "Mad Dog" Russo filled in, accompanied by regular Imus contributors Charles McCord and sportscaster Chris Carlin.   

Known for his rightwing political leanings and exaggerated impressions of prominent figures such as poet Maya Angelou, New York Cardinal Archbishop Edward Egan and New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin, McGuirk joined WFAN in 1984 when it was still WNBC. Along with serving as Imus' on-air foil, McGuirk was also in charge of booking the wide variety of politicians, journalists and other notables that constituted the program's prominent guest list. 

But it was probably only a matter of time before McGuirk, who played a larger role in the offending chat than any civil rights group and media outlets calling for Imus' head gave him credit for, was sent packing. 

In addition to calling the Rutgers players "hardcore ho's," the producer also characterized the Scarlet Knights' losing match-up against the University of Tennessee's Lady Vols as "the jigaboos versus the wannabes."

Except for confirming that he had been let go, CBS Radio, which owns WFAN, had no further on the decision or on the status of McGuirk's contract. (Let's just say that, while McGuirk's headshot can still be found on the WFAN Website's list of personalities, clicking on his picture leads you nowhere; his bio is still listed at MSNBC, which simulcast Imus until the last week.)

Imus, meanwhile, had recently inked a new five-year, multimillion-dollar deal that now needs settling. 

The station hasn't yet chosen a permanent replacement for Imus, whose show was nationally syndicated on 60 stations and drew approximately 2.5 million listeners a week. Russo and Francesa are scheduled to spend at least one more week in that time slot.

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