If you could get her to write a book...’” That book became I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which recently celebrated its 50th birthday. In the memoir, Angelou (born Marguerite Johnson ...

Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she and her older brother were raised by their ...

I was one of the few Black students at the Naval Academy in the 1970s, and had more freedom than students do now ...

A group of Annapolis-area residents and Naval Academy alumni launched an effort to purchase books removed from the Nimitz ...

Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" was among the 381 books that were recently removed from the U.S. Naval Academy's Nimitz Library, according to a list released by the Navy Friday.

Local alumni, residents and former USNA faculty hold a public reading of Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” on Saturday at City Dock to protest the 381 books banned from the ...

These are not fringe books. And yet, under the proposed House Bill 1539, now advancing in the Florida legislature, these titles could be removed from public school libraries and classrooms after ...

Books about the Holocaust, civil rights, feminism, racism, and Maya Angelou‘s famous autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” were recently removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s ...

Ben Thompson reads a chapter from the book. Local alumni, residents and former USNA faculty hold a public reading of Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” on Saturday at City Dock ...