Police informed Angel Mhande’s family of threat after her call for novel to be dropped from GCSE course

A Black teenager in Northern Ireland has been threatened after calling for the removal of John Steinbeck’s 1937 novel Of Mice and Men from the GCSE curriculum.

Police visited the Belfast home of Angel Mhande this week to notify her of the threat, prompting the family to take security measures.

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