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 ...

Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and books on the Holocaust were among the works removed in response to an ...

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

In a world of complex threats and challenges, the Department of Defense has decided to tackle one of the gravest: a quintessential piece of American literature.

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. In February, she won a Grammy for the ...

Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou’s famous autobiography, “I Know Why ...

Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" was among the 381 books that were recently removed from the U.S. Naval ...

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 from ...