After weeks of controversy, the board for the Mukilteo School district voted Monday night to take it off the required reading list for 9th graders.
, debate focused on the Pulitzer Prize winner’s treatment of characters of color and racist language. The book tells the story of a white lawyer defending a Black man wrongly accused of rape in the 1930s.
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