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Pentagon Purges Thousands of Articles About Minority and LGBTQ+ Personnel

HeadlineMar 20, 2025

In more military news, the Pentagon has removed or earmarked for removal at least 24,000 articles from its website. They include historical content on military members of color, women, and military members from the LGBTQ community, as well as pages on Holocaust remembrance, cancer awareness, sexual assault and suicide prevention. A page on groundbreaking African American baseball player Jackie Robinson’s military career had recently disappeared, and then reappeared after public backlash.

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