The West Valley High School Spanish teacher who read aloud the N-Word in a passage from "To Kill a Mockingbird" will not return to the school, the school board ruled at a crowded Wednesday morning ...

The West Valley High School teacher facing contract nonrenewal for his use of the N-word in his Spanish class in April convened a group of supporters in Millwood Park Thursday to continue to defend ...

Speakers raised concerns about freedom of speech and historical accuracy at the meeting. Heather Dalager told the board when ...

A teacher in Washington state said he was recently fired for reading his class a passage from “To Kill a Mockingbird” without censoring the n-word. Matthew Mastronardi, a Spanish teacher at ...

To Kill A Mockingbird tells the story of a white lawyer defending a black man accused of raping a white woman in 1930s Alabama and deals heavily with racist abuse suffered by blacks in the south.

I read this book every Christmas. At first, the story seems simple: Scout Finch’s rose-tinted memories of long, languid summers in the American deep south, and her idealised image of her father ...

Do you miss reading books? Have you been planning to read a book but just can’t find the one that you can sit with and read ...

Teachers would assign us to read 20 to 30 pages of "To Kill a Mockingbird," or "Catcher in the Rye," or ... I started picking up books – a lot of them. From comedic tomes from Jerry Seinfeld and Paul ...

Childhood trauma led Chris Whitaker to write the novel. Meeting readers over the last year spurred him to realize he should ...

4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Harper Lee's poignant story follows a young girl and her brother as they deal with the prejudice of their small town.

Tim Cook's book list includes picks like "I Am Malala" and Nike cofounder Phil Knight's memoir.