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Pentagon directs military to pull library books that address diversity, anti-racism, gender issues
The Pentagon has ordered all military leaders and commands to pull and review all of their library books that address ...
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How Science and Culture Are Under Attack—and What We Can Do About It
The first one to jump out at me is Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the classic memoir about growing up in racially segregated Arkansas in the 1930s and ’40s. Another is a more obscure ...
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Top 10 autobiographies ranked – Anne Frank's above Nelson Mandela but not number one
1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1969) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou is remains one of the most influential autobiographies of our time. It's themes of racial ...
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How 6 Democrats in a Consequential Governor’s Race Are Vying to Be Heard
Rachel Wisniewski for The New York Times Steven Fulop wants voters to know that ... you can study why Hitler decided to commit genocide but you can’t hear why the caged bird sings,” she ...
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The most famous author from every state
Angelou was also a civil rights activist, working with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. Her most acclaimed work, "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings," was published in 1969 and is a memoir of ...
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Maryland senator’s attempt to end Naval Academy book ban falls short
The Baltimore Banner thanks its sponsors. Become one. The books pulled off library shelves include “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou and Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to be an Antiracist.” Van ...