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Our books were recently banned at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. We are angry, mystified and defiant. In the 1930s, Nazis burned books deemed to be “un-German” and anti-Nazi ...
In World War II, the Naval Academy Class of 1940 lost 76 graduates. Seven of them were aboard the Arizona on Dec. 7, 1941.
When the U.S. Naval Academy library banned his memoir — a personal account of growing up Black in Denmark, South Carolina — Bakari Sellers couldn't help but see the irony. His book, "My ...
The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, has purged hundreds of books from its library — including "How to be Anti-Racist" by Ibram X. Kendi — as part of a push to eliminate diversity ...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Naval Academy has removed nearly 400 books from its library after being told by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's office to review and get rid of ones that promote diversity ...
Maya Angelou’s famous autobiography was among nearly 400 books removed from the Naval Academy’s library in the latest DEI purge. Skip to content. ... April 2, 2025, in Washington.
Ben Thompson reads a chapter from the book. 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 ...
All but a few of the nearly 400 books that the U.S. Naval Academy removed from its library because they dealt with anti-racism and gender issues are back on the shelves after the newest Pentagon-or… ...
The 379 other books removed from the US Naval Academy’s Nimitz Library last week include “Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World” by Wil Haygood, “I Know Why the ...
The U.S. Naval Academy has removed nearly 400 books from its library to comply with directives from the Trump administration on diversity, equity and inclusion policies, a U.S. Navy spokesman said ...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Naval Academy has removed nearly 400 books from its library after being told by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's office to review and get rid of ones that promote diversity ...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Naval Academy has removed nearly 400 books from its library after being told by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's office to review and get rid of ones that promote diversity ...