Tennessee School District Voted To Ban Pulitzer Prize-Winning ‘Maus’
A Tennessee school district voted unanimously to remove Pultizer Prize-winning Maus, a graphic novel about the Holocaust in a continuation of a wave of book bans in public schools. The board cited profanity and nudity as reasons the book has been removed from the eighth-grade language arts curriculum. Maus author Art Spiegelman told CNBC the move was “Orwellian.” The graphic novel is an account of Spiegelman’s Jewish father’s experience in the Holocaust. One board member, Tony Allman, was quoted as saying “It shows people hanging, it shows them killing kids, why does the educational system pro...