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 ...

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

Ahead of its publication, James Baldwin said Caged Bird “liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.

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

The banned books include Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Janet Jacobs ... The presentation also included quotes from Stockdale, former President Dwight D.

The private lives of presidents and princes, romantic affairs, meditations on grief, awkward coming-of-age stories, or an ...

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.

Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, as well as Maya Angelou’s famous autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” were among the 381 books that were ...