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Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” became a classic the moment it was published in 1960 – a tale of racial injustice set in Depression-era Alabama told through the eyes of 6-year-old Scout.

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This winter it made it to Broadway, grossing more at the box office in its first full week than any other play in history.

Last fall it was voted America’s best-loved book. We hope you’ll enjoy starting the journey with us soon. (They listened intently and took notes.) He put everything ahead of his own well-being, Sara says, with “a generosity of time that we don’t know in North America.”Our reporters’ work will take you to the Arctic, the Caribbean, Europe, and South Asia. They saw the power in his seemingly modest steps: helping random young people on the street, explaining green hydrogen to a group of kids in a poor neighborhood. Deon showed Sara and Melanie the one-room home he shares with his mother. He’s going somewhere big, but it’s not linear, in his outlook.”Trust grew. It’s a metaphor for his work: It’s the long game. Sara’s first interview with Deon sprawled, leaving her with doubts.“Then, the next day,” she says, “I listened to my recording and realized he was teaching me a lesson – that you can’t get all the answers at once or get everything right away. They often don’t tell their stories the way an American reporter may anticipate – which can demand extraordinary patience to allow a story to emerge.That’s what happened in Namibia.

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Sara and photographer Melanie Stetson Freeman had interviewed him only weeks earlier in Namibia, and we were all excited about the recognition of someone who tenaciously, without immediate reward, chips away at barriers to progress.Sara, Melanie, writer Stephanie Hanes, photographer Alfredo Sosa, and senior editor Clara Germani are preparing a global series – launching in November – about the generation born into the climate crisis and now driving transformation, innovation, and progress.In this season of climate conferences, it’s powerful to hear about the work of young people effecting change in extraordinarily diverse ways. “Good news!” he tweeted.“Look at Deon on the stage (far right of screen)!”In an emoji-and-exclamation-point-laden exchange among Monitor colleagues last week, correspondent Sara Miller Llana shared the image of young Namibian delegate Deon Shekuza on center stage at the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi, Kenya. “In a state like Mississippi, where we continue to deal with racial injustices and discrimination even today, it is critical that our students have the opportunity to engage on the themes presented in To Kill a Mockingbird,” the American Civil Liberties Union in Mississippi said.Īrne Duncan, the former secretary of education in the Obama administration, and others on Twitter, welcomed the reinstatement. Many saw it as a lost opportunity for students to have the frank conversations that generations of Americans need to have over their country’s history. The Biloxi School Board’s decision spread online and outside the state.

The same year, the book was retained on a supplemental eighth-grade reading list in the Casa Grande Elementary School District in Arizona despite protests by black parents and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that it was unfit for junior high use, the A.L.A.

In 1985, its inclusion at a Park Hill junior high school in Missouri was challenged because of profanity and racial slurs.

Set during the Depression in a small Alabama town where a black man is accused of raping a white woman, its exploration of racism, injustice and discrimination has placed it among the most banned or challenged works of literature in the United States, according to the American Library Association.