The other three books added to the list are "Life is Funny" by E.R. Frank, "The Haters" by Jesse Andrews and "People Kill ...

Toni Morrison’s debut novel might be her most misunderstood. This essay is adapted from On Morrison (Hogarth). Banned as it’s been, everybody knows what The Bluest Eye is about: a little black girl ...

Bowing to Tea Party pressure, Alabama State Senator Bill Holtzclaw said this week that he thinks The Bluest Eye, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison's novel about a little black girl who wishes ...

“Mrs. Bernstein, I can’t believe you made us read that book!” My former student looked at me as if I had committed the most despicable crime imaginable, something akin to child abuse. I felt guilty, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Timothy Eric in 'The Bluest Eye' at the Ensemble Theatre (Everett Welch) Pecola is an African American young girl whose own mother ...

In 1970, Toni Morrison published her first novel, “The Bluest Eye.” Set in Ohio in the 1940s, the powerful story is centered around 11-year-old Pecola Breedlove, a Black girl who grew up in a violent ...

The Bluest Eye is also a testimony to the cruelty of the American Myth that assigns blame to those unlucky or unworthy enough to be born not “swaddled in comfort and care”. The hubris of assigning ...

"The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison received the green light to stay in St. Joseph School District libraries, but some community members still aren’t happy about its place in local schools. In June, the ...

A Missouri school district joins a growing list of districts across the country to ban books highlighting issues of race, sexuality, and the Holocaust. In a 4-3 vote, the Wentzville School Board voted ...

The Redlands school board is set to vote Tuesday, Dec. 9, on whether to pull two books from library shelves. The Redlands Unified School District board will hold two public hearings to decide the fate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I always say that the first book we chose for Read With Jenna, which was The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin, ends with the most ...