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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…
Potemkim PUMAs
I was behind on my blog reading, but I was stoked to see that Shark-Fu was on NPR’s “Tell Me More” debating, of all people, Darragh Murphy. Shark-Fu has a post breaking down what happened, and let’s just say it was bizarre and that her take on it was perfect.…
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