HARPER LEE

Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” comes to D.C. with Richard Thomas as Atticus Finch.

Just days after the banning of “Maus” by a Tennessee school district made national news, two editions of Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize winning graphic story about the Holocaust have reached the top 20 on Amazon.

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Greg Kinnear was just a month away from making his Broadway debut in “To Kill a Mockingbird” when the pandemic shut theater down in March 2020.

Fans of the Broadway adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird” will get a treat when the show restarts this fall — Jeff Daniels and Celia Keenan-Bolger, two of the play’s original stars.

Many educators in the U.S. say they’ve heard a demand from students for fuller Black history lessons beyond what was already offered.

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2016 file photo, author and filmmaker Sherman Alexie appears at a celebration of Indigenous Peoples' Day at Seattle's City Hall. Alexie is included in a list of authors who wrote books that were among the 100 most subjected to censorship efforts over the past decade, as compiled by the American Library Association. All wrote books that were among the 100 most subjected to censorship efforts over the past decade, as compiled by the American Library Association. The association does not formally count the number of times books are actually removed from a library shelf or from a school reading list. “There are actually two lines of objections to the Anne Frank diary,” Caldwell-Stone says.

*****This year marks the 60th anniversary of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Published in 1960, the book is a literary classic that won Lee a Pulitzer Prize. “To Kill a Mockingbird” is one of the most read literary works in American history with over 30 million copies sold. Racism continues to permeate the criminal justice system. In “To Kill a Mockingbird,” after Robinson’s conviction, Finch and his son, Jem, discussed the real or perceived flaws of the criminal justice system. There is always the possibility, no matter how improbable, that he’s innocent.”For people of color, racism in the criminal justice system goes far beyond the finding of guilt.

Harper Lee was as the White House put it, a "giant of American literature." The author of "To Kill a Mockingbird" died Thursday night at the age of 89. President Obama was a huge fan and so was his predecessor. Anthony Mason reports.

Harper Lee, the iconic author of "To Kill a Mockingbird," has died at the age of 89. CBSN's Anne-Marie Green and Meg Oliver have more details.

Harper Lee's sequel to "To Kill a Mockingbird" was released today. While some fans line up at bookstores to buy the novel, others are skeptical of the controversial reviews and evolution of Lee's characters. By Liz Hamel.

There's criticism clouding the upcoming release of Harper Lee's second novel, "Go Set A Watchman." As CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller explains, fans are distraught over Atticus Finch's change in racial attitude.

The son of a Boston police captain was arrested and charged with plotting to attack and bomb a college campus; There's criticism clouding the upcoming release of Harper Lee's second novel, "Go Set A Watchman".