0:08 — Maya Angelou on September 8th, 1995, on-stage with her son Guy Johnson and Janice Mirikitani, at the Calvin Simmons Theater in Oakland, at an event called “As The World Rises.” Maya Angelou was a poet, playwright, and filmmaker, best-known for her memoir, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.”
0:33 — June Jordan, poet, activist, journalist, founder of the Poetry for the People program at UC Berkeley, reading in 1991 at an event called Poets and Politicians Against the War (the first Gulf War).