Whether its title conjures memories of middle-school English class, the bespectacled face of Gregory Peck or a more recent trip to a packed Broadway theater, most Americans have encountered To Kill a ...
it is one of the trademark texts of the American school system by Harper Lee. For decades it has been widely read in high schools and middle schools as a key anti-racist text. But how did this novel, ...
A group of progressive teachers fought to "prohibit" Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" from being assigned in classroom curriculum amid left-wing criticism of parents protesting sexually ...
In the 60 years since “To Kill a Mockingbird,” one of the most widely read books in middle school, was published, the lens through which it frames race and its Black characters has come under scrutiny ...
Watching — and reading — Harper Lee's seminal story, To Kill a Mockingbird, has been a rite of passage for multiple generations of American teens. But for the film's star, Mary Badham, Mockingbird ...
Richard Thomas and Yaegel T. Welch play Atticus Finch and Tom Robinson in "To Kill A Mockingbird," which comes to the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center Tuesday. APPLETON – A courtroom drama, depiction ...
One of the most popular non-musical Broadway shows of recent years, the Aaron Sorkin stage version of “Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’” has finally hit Hartford, 16 months after its first ...
Here’s Mary Badham’s most vivid memory from the 1963 Academy Awards: A lady walks up to Badham, then just 10-years-old, seated in the front of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. The lady says to ...