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I saw this story on NBC Nightly News Sunday evening and thought it was a great, short personal profile piece featuring a remarkable behind-the-scenes White House staffer.
Meet Leah Katz-Hernandez in the video below. She’s a young woman who isn’t letting her disability get in her way. She now works just steps away from the Oval Office!
Good news for fans of the American literary classic, To Kill a Mockingbird — the book’s author, Harper Lee, plans to publish a sequel of sorts. This is a big deal because Go Set a Watchman will be the first novel Lee has published since the 1960 publishing of To Kill a Mockingbird.
In actuality, this “sequel” was written before To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee wrote Go Set a Watchman in the mid-1950s, but at the suggestion of her editor at the time, she wrote another novel following a child version of Scout Finch — the heroine in that second novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Go Set a Watchman follows an adult Scout as she returns to a fictional Alabama town to visit her father, Atticus.
According to the New York Times, “In a statement, Jonathan Burnham, Harper’s publisher, called the new novel ‘a compelling and ultimately moving narrative about a father and a daughter’s relationship, and the life of a small Alabama town living through the racial tensions of the 1950s.’”
Go Set a Watchman will be released July 14.
Ok, ok. This video is everywhere, so I finally broke down and watched it. I’m surprised to say — IT WAS SO WORTH IT.
This is sure to make your day. At the very least, you’ll crack a smile. In fact, this viral video is so good (even though a spokesperson for the Dover Police Department did admit it was staged), it even prompted a response from Taylor Swift herself!