RALEIGH, N.C. -- The Wake County Board of Education could vote next week to remove three books from the school system's required reading list. Called2Action, a parents group, objects to Alice Walker's "The Color Purple," Robert Cormier's "The Chocolate War" and Toni Morrison's "Beloved," saying the novels contain vulgar language and graphic sexual content. "The Color Purple" won the Pulitzer Prize for literature, and Toni Morrison's "Beloved" won a Nobel Prize. Still, the group says the books are not appropriate for middle-school and high-school students. "I couldn't read these excerpts over the air (on television)," said Steve Noble, a member...
