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Maya Angelou. Angelou has received more than 30 honorary degrees and has been inducted into the Wake Forest University Hall of Fame for Writers.

Maya Angelou Accepts the Literarian Award. Toni Morrison Presents Dr. Maya Angelou with the Literarian Award. Brown and Mrs. In her defense, a group of self-proclaimed American patriots known as 2 Million Bikers to D. Are black women not allowed dignity in death? Must their funerals become a brawl and a ruckus? So while we might need a conversation about our societal infatuation with titles, that is not a conversation that should be waged on Dr.

We are in no way diminished by conferring her the honor of the title "doctor. I know black women say this kind of thing often, but it holds true. I stand on the shoulders of Dr. Her mother got up with her at a. She first joined in , shortly after writing the film Georgia, Georgia about an interracial romance, but made her official directorial debut at 70 with Down in the Delta The movie is about a mother who sends her children away from Chicago to live with family in rural Mississippi so that they could learn about their roots.

She grew up in Stamps, Ark. Write to Olivia B. Waxman at olivia. By Olivia B. Consolidated News Pictures; Getty Images. These degrees are given at commencements to lure big names to the ceremonies, impressing graduates and their parents. I have long thought little of this tradition; at Yale, my alma mater, honorary degree recipients pop onto campus, meet with administrators and a few students student government presidents, that type , collect their degrees onstage, then leave.

Paul Simon got an honorary doctorate in , Paul McCartney in —and neither graced us with a song. We would read about Dr. Paul Anka, Dr. Puff Daddy as he was called when Howard University honored him , Dr. Glenn Beck, and Dr.

Dennis Hastert. Marcel Marceau, Dr. Charles Colson, and Dr.