I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Through June 5 at Theater Row, Manhattan; nycchildrenstheater.org. Running time: 55 minutes. A version of this article appears in print on ...

The first of Maya Angelou’s seven autobiographies, 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,' deals with weighty issues like rape, identity, and racism. When it came out in 1969, it was one of the first ...

The Discomfort Zone A Personal History Jonathan Franzen Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 196 pp., $22 ...

In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou uses narration to effectively achieve her purpose of illustrating that despite being oppressed, one still longs for freedom symbolism and imagery.” ...

In the opening scene of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Dr. Maya Angelou (Brennie Tellu) sits center stage on a wooden floor while Mahalia Jackson’s “Trouble of The World” slowly fades out ...

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” is back on the bookshelves of the U.S. Naval Academy after being removed in April in a ...

Maya Angelou’s breakthrough memoir, published 50 years ago, launched a revolution in literature and social awareness. Illustration by TS Abe; Photographic reference: Corbis Outline Maya Angelou ...

Local alumni, residents and former USNA faculty hold a public reading of Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” Saturday at City Dock to protest the 381 books banned from the Naval ...

The name of the project is “Operation Caged Bird,” named for one of the books removed from the Naval Academy’s library, Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. ...