Daily Mail: “Author Ta-Nehisi Coates has crashed a South Carolina School Board meeting to protest the banning of his book on racism.
Coates – who is black – sat beside Chapin High School teacher Mary Wood to show solidarity with her high school English class a lesson centered on an essay from Coates’ 2015 best-selling memoir ‘Between the World and Me.’
District officials banned the class after it sparked complaints from students who wrote that it made them ‘uncomfortable’ and ‘ashamed’ to be white.
The acclaimed author did not speak during the meeting.
The decision in February to halt the teaching of Coates’ essay about racism drew criticism from state and national educator groups, who claimed Wood was censored.”