Jackie Robinson’s Army story restored after Defense Department DEI purge

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An article on the Department of Defense website telling the story of Jackie Robinson, which was apparently removed in a purge of articles related to diversity, equity and inclusion as of Wednesday morning, reappeared later that afternoon. The article, part of the department’s series on athletes who served, highlighted the Hall of Fame hero’s life and service before he broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947.

The disappearance appeared to be another part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the federal government. Articles about a Pima Indian who was one of the six Marines photographed hoisting a U.S. flag on Iwo Jima in 1945 as well as multiple stories about the Navajo Code Talkers and Japanese American veterans had been deleted. A Defense Department webpage about Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers, a Medal of Honor recipient who was Black, was briefly removed, then restored after an outcry.