Maya Angelou sits in her hotel room, reliving her past and writing her autobiography, "I know why the caged bird sings". A ...

Local alumni, residents and former USNA faculty hold a public reading of Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” ...

‘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 ...

Less than a week after the U.S. Naval Academy removed 381 books and literary works from its library, a local Annapolis book ...

WASHINGTON — Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou's famous autobiography, ...

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 ...

An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes ...

Today’s attacks on libraries, universities, and government agencies by the Trump administration hark back to some of the ...

Members of civil rights groups gathered outside the locked iron gates of the Naval Academy to condemn its decision to remove ...

Maya Angelou has led many lives. She is best known as a writer, for her numerous books of poetry and her six poignant memoirs, including the masterful 1969 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

That’s how long it takes to read Maya Angelou's “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” out loud. That’s how long a small act of ...

Our books were recently banned at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. We are angry, mystified and defiant.