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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

April 11, 2025 Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou’s transformative best-selling 1970 memoir chronicling her struggles with racism and trauma. Two copies of “Mein Kampf ...

Another was: “The Last White Man,” by Mohsin Hamid. Then, “Horse,” by Geraldine Brooks, and “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” by Maya Angelou. This wasn’t a typical book order for ...

The Annapolis Book Club, a small group of about a dozen members, read “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Literarian Award recipient Maya Angelou at Susan Campbell Park on Saturday in ...

The US Naval Academy canceled a lecture that author Ryan Holiday was scheduled to give to students there last week after he ...

The Pentagon has ordered all military leaders and commands to pull and review all of their library books that address ...

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 ...

The culling includes "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou, "How to Be an Antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi, "Bodies in Doubt" by Elizabeth Reis, and "White Rage" by Carol Anderson.

About 50 members of civil rights groups and several elected officials gathered outside the locked iron gates of the Naval Academy on Thursday to condemn its decision to remove 381 DEI-related ...