Your Take: Revising ‘Huck Finn’
A new edition of “Huckleberry Finn” will be published without the “n-word.” Is this censorship? Or a necessary move to make the book more teachable in certain schools. It’s a complex issue and Takeaway listeners weighed in on both sides of the argument. Listener, Laura Himmelstein thinks that kids should be able to read the book, but not until they can read it uncensored.
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