They developed intricate hieroglyphs. Mayan writing dates back to around 300 B.C. The written language is a complex system of more than 800 hieroglyphs, each representing a syllable. It is one of ...

Maya Angelou was writing when there were sit-ins, bus boycotts, and marches—the March on Washington and the march from Selma to Montgomery—that protested the current state of African Americans ...