For more than a hundred years, the Maya have captured the popular imagination and cultivated scholarly curiosity. However, rarely do we get to hear about Maya pasts from Maya people. On Thursday, Sept ...

Maya artisans and knowledge keepers from Guatemalan and diasporic communities will join with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian to celebrate Maya culture and history at events in ...

Maya Angelou’s scheduled visit to Rochester Institute of Technology on Monday, March 25, is postponed due to poor weather in the nation’s heartland. Winter storm Virgil is moving through the Midwest ...

“An Evening with Maya Angelou” has been rescheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 30, at the Gordon Field House and Activities Center at Rochester Institute of Technology. Those who originally registered ...

The ancient Maya civilization of Central America left behind an intricate and mysterious hieroglyphic script, carved on monuments, painted on pottery, and drawn in handmade bark-paper books. For ...

Following coins that put the spotlight on Duke Ellington, the Tuskegee Airmen and Samoan fruit bats, a new run of quarters will call attention to pioneering American women. It's part of the US Mint's ...

Famed poet Maya Angelou is to receive the Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama this month. She will also be hosting her first-ever public radio program. “Maya Angelou’s Black History Month ...

Mayoral candidate Maya Wiley has made her work expanding high-speed Internet access to poorer New Yorkers a central part of her case to voters that she can run City Hall. But a key piece of that ...