Maya Angelou (1928-2014) was a world-renowned poet, novelist, essayist, and humanitarian. She also directed the 1998 family drama Down in the Delta, starring Alfre Woodard as a woman in Chicago struggling with addiction who is sent to live with her relatives in Mississippi to piece her life back together.
Maya Angelou
St. Louis, Missouri
Films
Down in the Delta
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(1998)
In a desperate attempt to change her life, Loretta (Alfre Woodard) — a troubled single mother from a tough Chicago neighborhood — is sent to spend a summer at her family's ancestral home in rural Mississippi.
