Kendell Pinkney & Lonnie Firestone

‘Difficult literature is more important than ever’: why we’re bringing Black plays to Jewish schools

McMinn County in Tennessee recently banned their middle schools from reading Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel “Maus,” a work that for decades has powerfully introduced young readers to the realities of the Holocaust. Shortly thereafter, residents of nearby Mount Juliet held a mass book burning, during which they tossed copies of “Harry Potter” and “Twilight” into…