In A DEI About-Face, The U.S. Naval Academy Has Reshelved Most Of The 400 Books Removed

In A DEI About-Face, The U.S. Naval Academy Has Reshelved Most Of The 400 Books Removed

The U.S. Naval Academy removed 381 books from its library in April 2025 to align with DEI mandated. Today most of them have been reinstated. Why this is important.

U.S. Navy Restores Almost All of the DEI Banned Books

The U.S. Navy and the other branches of the military were told by order of Trump and Hegseth to remove all books on the subjects of diversity, equity, and inclusion. In practice, this meant elimination of books about race, racism, and sexual orientation. These were the search terms used to identify offending titles: The 20 official search terms included in the May 9 memo included: affirmative action; allyship; anti-racism; critical race theory; …

Naval Academy Returns Over 300 Books To Libraries Initially Removed For DEI Concerns

Source: Lima / Getty Over the last four months, the Trump administration has launched an all-out assault on anything it believes promotes Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) within the federal government. This makes it somewhat surprising that the U.S. Naval Academy announced that the majority of the books it pulled from the school’s libraries under the new anti-DEI mandates have been returned to bookshelves. ABC News reports that of the 381 …