Black Belfast girl threatened after telling of unease over Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men’s author, John Steinbeck, won the Nobel prize in literature but some educators and parents have expressed unease about the language in the novel. Photograph: Hulton Deutsch/Corbis/Getty Images

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.