Racist" by Ibram X. Kendi, as well as “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" by American writer and poet Maya Angelou.

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

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 400 volumes removed from the U ...

An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power. By John Ismay John Ismay, a Pentagon reporter ...

EDITOR’S NOTE- This story has been updated with more accurate information released from the Smithsonian. WASHINGTON (DC News ...

Two of my books are among the 381 volumes that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered removed from the library of the U.S. Naval Academy because they were deemed to relate to the topics of ...

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

Hegseth has earned for himself perhaps the best-known rebuke from the McCarthy era: “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” ...

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

These books are not dogmatic or indoctrinating ... There may be 381 perspectives on diversity, equity and inclusion that are now purged from the Naval Academy, but there are literally thousands ...

The Defense Department banned Ibram X. Kendi's book "How to Be an Antiracist," but its nuanced take on race ought to be compatible with the Trump administration's statement in January that ...