An emblematic figure in the history of the United States, Maya Angelou is committed body and soul to the American twentieth century. As long as I will be black began in 1957 when, determined to become a writer, she left with her son, Guy, to join Harlem, the epicenter of the intellectual activity of black Americans. She participated in the upheavals of the time and met artists like Billie Holiday and James Baldwin, and the leaders of the civil rights movement, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. Finally, conquered by Vusumzi Make, who fights for the freedom of the blacks of South Africa, she leaves to live in Africa, the scene of anti-colonialist struggles, where she becomes a journalist. This autobiographical story draws the portrait of an exceptional woman who has integrated, to the heart of her intimate life, a real world, cultural and political revolution.