a band book by another. not just our books, but anything you see out there. thanks to, you books that are highlighted, because of what we did, now her book, i am rosa parks, is being taught in, those schools. we made them linda s, bucks fight back, use those and fight back. i appreciate your time as always. thank you for being with us. the bryan is the author of the naughty conspiracy, the secret plot to kill was, well stalin, and churchill. and many other books. holman holman two pills relieve allergy headache pain? and the congestion that causes it! flonase headache and allergy relief. psst! psst! all good!
let s talk about the dangers. if desantis actually passes his, quote, higher education agenda, we talked about taking away money to universities for d e i, they first, he initiatives. we talked about the fact that a teacher could look at a felony if they have a band book or an unapproved book. where s education going in the state of florida? . i have an eight-year-old and second grade in public school. i m worried that she s not going to get the kind of education she needs because of this particular desantis s agenda sure look, under this governor in the state of florida it s a sad state of affairs not just in the realm of the vacation. every opportunity he has to put another in his ultra maga conservative hat, he does. it s not just by and large, it s good policy or that s the floridians or americans support these policies. it s because it helps him get to washington, d.c.. this is a governor who has one foot in washington, d.c. already, and he s measuring the drapes in the white hous
north carolina or around the country. because the talks about is when she talked to voters all over the state. whether it is in the urban senators, where democrats get their numbers up, or when she travels to rural communities. she has talked to women of all ages. she has talked to young people. they are gonna play a major role in this place and in parts of the suburbs outside of the there are new voters, people in the state that we don t know about. they are trying to reach those votes. we are talking a beasley this afternoon. thank you very much. tony hilton is live from winston-salem, north carolina. still ahead, today s meeting of the banned book club s gonna be different. we re not taking a look at a single band book. we re taking a look at the movement a book banning as a whole. it is actively a movement. it is an organized one. a 10 am, i am joined by the georgia hopeful, stacey abrams. many say that she is entering his race as an underdog. don t miss my conversation. nver
you can t fix it unless you acknowledge that there is a mistake. and that something needs to change. back in 2019, you wrote an essay for the office of intellectual freedom of the american library association of being the author of the number one most band book that here. you concluded part by saying maybe being mislabeled as objectionable content while being asked to cough cannot comment on it as an academic curiosity, it s a delicate dance, i m fatigued, and quote. i want to address, that it s a delicate dance, it s something we perform on the velshi banned book club. with every author. tell me about the delicate dance. it must be fatiguing. on one hand, we are sticking it to the man by putting this book on the velshi than book club. on the other hand, you do not get the bill the author of a book. it is not an honor, it s not a great thing. even in cases where my book at additional light coming on here, thank you for having me. if some liberal a thought buys
american experience. but make no mistake about that. the targeted efforts to ban these books, and it is targeted, wages a war on readers who shares the identities of those characters and the authors. books like that represent change. they illustrate new ideas, but the sort of change is not one that some americans are interested in embracing. there s an irony in that reading these books would actually help bridge that figure, as this year s band book week puts it, books unite us. censorship divides us. members of the velshi banned book club are familiar with all of this. today and together, we ve met different authors. we have grappled with different topics. we ve considered different texts and meetings. week after week, chapter after chapter, look at them all on the wall behind me. and yet, these meetings never lose their urgency or their immediacy. the, day we are not looking at one book or one offer, but banned book in this country as a whole, and i ve got a perfect guest. joining us