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There’s a quote by the late and great Maya Angelou I think about often the older I get: “I've learned that you can tell a lot ...
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 ...
(AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) WASHINGTON (AP) — Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and ...
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 ...
Scott W. Stern’s new book, “There Is a Deep Brooding in Arkansas,” intertwines two rape trials that occurred in Mississippi ...
After he was sworn in as secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. Naval Academy to end diversity practices in admissions and in its circulation of the approximately 600,000 titles available ...
People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.” — ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When we think of Maya Angelou, it’s often the iconic pieces that come to mind—“Still I Rise,” “Phenomenal Woman,” or “Caged Bird.” These powerful works have ...
Turning 75 this month, 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 ...
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 Naval ...
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 response to ...