to kill a mockingbird
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Stop Making Black Kids Read These Old-Timey Books. Consider These Black Books Instead
Give your kids’ reading list an upgrade with these titles instead
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Old Hollywood Excellence: A Celebration of Classic Black Movie Stars
For Black History Month we’re honoring Eartha Kitt, Josephine Baker, the Nicholas Brothers, Sidney Poitier and other pioneers of Black Hollywood.
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18 People Whose Major Fibs Made Them Worthy of Being #Cancelled
Rudy Giuliani, George Santos and more really thought they could sit on their throne of lies forever.
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‘They’re Looking Down Upon Children’: The Root Presents: It’s Lit! Talks Teaching Antiracism With Jason Reynolds
Last year, the YA author achieved an artful remix of Ibram X. Kendi’s seminal work; this year, it has new relevance.
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Redefining the Role: LaTanya Richardson Jackson Finds a Well-Deserved Spotlight in Broadway's To Kill a Mockingbird
Many know her as one-half of one of Hollywood’s most enduring marriages, but LaTanya Richardson Jackson (wife of Samuel L. Jackson), is an acting powerhouse in her own right. Just ask the audiences currently experiencing her talent nightly in Broadway’s acclaimed production of To Kill a Mockingbird. Scripted by award-winning writer, producer and director Aaron…
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Miss. School District Axes To Kill a Mockingbird Because It Made Some People ‘Uncomfortable’
As further evidence that the United States is descending into an authoritarian state, a school district in Mississippi has removed Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird from a junior high school reading list. Biloxi, Miss., administrators pulled the novel from the eighth-grade curriculum this week after getting complaints from parents. The decision made was an…
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Ky. High School Apologizes After Assignment on the N-Word
A high school in Lexington, Ky., is apologizing after an assignment focused on questions surrounding the use of the n-word, WKYT reports. According to the report, Kiarah Raglin, a freshman at Lafayette High School, was given the assignment in English class last week, prior to fall break. According to school Principal Bryne Jacobs, the assignment…