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The Free Black Women’s Library, a community and grassroots-funded library in Brooklyn, New York, has found a way to keep ...
For years, conservative school boards, legislatures, and parents pushed for thousands of books to be purged from classrooms and school libraries. Most of the targeted works are by or about Black and ...
Do you remember what a “segregation scholarship” is – or was? “A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation ...
Gen. Charles C. Rogers, a Black recipient of the Medal of Honor. Officials said such removals were mistakes and have been reversed. The memo on library books, meanwhile, says that a temporary ...
It’s the latest turn in a dizzying effort to rid the military of materials related to diversity, equity and inclusion ...
“As long as it’s White Appalachia, it’s acceptable. But if it’s Black in the South, it’s banned.” The removal follows a May 9 Pentagon memo instructing military leaders to review and pull library ...
transsexual and white privilege. Early last month the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, removed nearly 400 books from its library after being told by Hegseth’s office to get rid of ...
Two of my books are among the 381 volumes that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered removed from the library of ... between accepted “white” classics and spurned “Black” books ...
Hayden, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2016, was the first woman and the first African American to hold the position.
An Ohio man is accused of burning 100 library books on African American ... actions and said it wants to collect 1,000 "new books lifting up Black, Jewish, and LGBTQ+ voices," Congregation ...