A group of Annapolis-area residents and Naval Academy alumni launched an effort to purchase books removed from the Nimitz ...

read “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Literarian Award recipient Maya Angelou at Susan Campbell Park on Saturday in response to hundreds of books removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s ...

New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush wrote Friday that the Maya Angelou memoir that details her life of racism and trauma has been removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s library. Meanwhile ...

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 Academy ...

was commissioned as an officer from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1999. April 11, 2025 Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou’s transformative best-selling 1970 memoir ...

I was one of the few Black students at the Naval Academy in the 1970s, and had more freedom than students do now ...

and Maya Angelou’s famous autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s library on March 31 after Defense ...

After he was sworn in as secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. Naval Academy to end diversity ... "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou, the 2010 book "Memorializing ...