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The dismissal of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden is a loss — not just for those who admired her, not just for Black women, ...
The firing of Carla Hayden as librarian of Congress is just the latest example of America’s oldest betrayal, writes.
Carla Hayden, a Baltimorean and former librarian of Congress fired by President Donald Trump last week, had very public ...
The Library of Congress, a 225-year-old Washington institution, has never had a moment like this. Last week, the Trump ...
Hayden made history in 2016 as the first woman and first African American to run the Library of Congress. Her firing arrived ...
The nation’s first African American Librarian of Congress was the latest person to get fired by President Donald Trump, a ...
Seven former National Ambassadors for Young People’s Literature have announced their opposition to the Trump administration’s ...
The suggestion comes after Trump abruptly fired the librarian of Congress appointed by the Obama administration.
Carla Hayden, who was fired as librarian of Congress on May, spent her childhood summers in Springfield at her grandparents. Hayden attended MacMurray College in Jacksonville before transferring to ...
Rebecca Brenner Graham is author of Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany (Kensington, January 2025) and a postdoctoral research associate at ...
Shira Perlmutter's termination came shortly after the Copyright Office published a long-anticipated report on artificial ...