To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee taken off Mississippi school reading list

• Official: ‘some language in the book makes people uncomfortable’
• Story of racism in the US south has been removed from schools before

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s classic novel about racism and the American south, has been removed from a junior-high reading list in a Mississippi school district because the language in the book “makes people uncomfortable”.

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