‘You know the poet Maya Angelou? 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 ...

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

The name of the project is “Operation Caged Bird,” named for one of the books removed from the Naval Academy’s library, Maya ...

Among 381 books that have been removed from the library at the U.S. Naval Academy is Maya Angelou’s best-seller, “I Know Why ...

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 ...

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

London England Dec 3rd 1968, Maya Angelou sits in her hotel room, reliving her past and writing her autobiography, "I know why the caged bird sings". A book that will sell over 4 million copies ...

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 ...

I was shocked and upset to learn recently that Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” was, under orders of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, pulled from the shelves of Nimitz ...

Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou’s famous autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” were among the nearly 400 volumes removed ...