Does It “Stack the Deck” Against the Powerful When a Judge Quotes To Kill a Mockingbird & Describes Civil Rights History?

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch said to the jury, “Our courts have their faults, as does any human institution, but in this country

Who is Atticus Finch & Where Does a Lawsuit About Him Belong?

Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is at the center of yet another legal drama. This time, Tonja Carter, the representative of

The Dream of Voting *Whenever* We Want

On this blog, when I asked readers to recommend a book for a school-age audience that is something Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is

A School District Removed To Kill a Mockingbird From Its Lesson Plan & Replaced it with… What?

Last week, a public school district in Mississippi pulled Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird from its 8th grade curriculum. To Kill a Mockingbird, which

Dear Fahrenheit 451, To Kill a Mockingbird, & More

Dear Fahrenheit 451, by Annie Spence, is a collection of humorous letters addressed to books many of us have read (or have pretended to read).

Would Your Goodreads Profile Get You Out of Jury Duty? Should It?

As I continue to grapple with To Kill a Mockingbird’s legacy — including whether it’s time for schools to replace it in the curriculum now