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Virginia mom wants ‘Beloved’ banned from schools
The mother of a high school student in Fairfax County, Virginia wants her son’s school district to stop teaching Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved to high school students. According to the Washington Post, Laura Murphy knows that her quest to have the book banned from schools will probably be…
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