Maya Angelou’s death was not just another other celebrity death – it was the death of a true historical figure. So it’s fitting that someone like Oprah Winfrey would want to pay her last respects by streaming the services on her OWN Network and online.

The services are being shown today ( June 7) at 10am ET/7am PT and will be attended by not only Oprah but the likes of first lady Michelle Obama and former President Bill Clinton.

May 28 was the last day the world saw Angelou alive. When it came to writers of the 20^th century – she was one of the most renowned and celebrated. Born April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, MO the woman who’d go on to teach for over 30 years at a private North Carolina university and have her words praised by the world, never graduated college herself. She rose above adversity and poverty to strive among the rest.

Other than writing she was an actress, singer and dancer. Basically, whatever Angelou wanted to do – she could. On top of all her creative endeavors she was played a huge role in civil rights. She’d met the late Nelson Mandela when she was living in Africa back in the day, and in 1968 helped Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. organize the Poor People’s March in Memphis, TN.

Some of her most notable gifts to the world were I Know Why the Caged Bird Sing and the poem she read at Clinton’s ’93 inauguration, “On the Pulse of Morning.”