Talking Banned Books With The American Library Association's Next President

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Sep 22, 2022

Headlines about "book bans" have become more and more commonplace over the past months and years, targeting mainly works by Black and Queer authors, which they consider not to be "age appropriate" reading material for youths. Emily Drabinski, president-elect of the American Library Association for 2023-24, joins to discuss.

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