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

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

Local author Leonard Zeskind’s book was among those removed from the U.S. Naval Academy library in a DEI purge ordered by the ...

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

The academy banned Kaliss’ book, “Men’s College Athletics and the Politics of Racial Equality” (Temple University Press: 2014 ...

The Air Force memo directs the Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs, Colorado, to review all of its titles for anything ...

Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and books on the Holocaust were among the works removed in response to an order from the office of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. By John ...

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 ...

The orders from service leaders come about two weeks after the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, removed nearly 400 ...

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 ...

Trump and his supporters are trying to purge ideas they dislike to chill the speech of opponents in public dialogue. It's authoritarian and dangerous.

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...