The Redlands school board is debating the fate of two books on library shelves at two high schools that have been challenged for alleged explicit content.

On Tuesday night, Dec. 9, board members are discussing whether “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison and “Push” by Sapphire should remain in the libraries.

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The debut novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author Morrison was published in 1970 and addresses racism, beauty standards, child abuse and sexual abuse through the eyes of 11-year-old Pecola after the Great Depression.

“Push” is a 1996 novel that inspired the Oscar-winning movie “Precious.” It tells the story of an illiterate Black teenager in New York City’s Harlem who is sexually abused by her father and

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