Historian and writer Ibram X. Kendi is returning to D.C., joining Howard University as director of a new institute researching the global African diaspora. Why it matters: It's a homecoming for ...

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 ...