america have filed a lawsuit on behalf of several of those authors and two local parents alleging that the district is in violation of the first amendment and the equal protection clause. joining us now are nbc news correspondent antonia hylton and george m. johnson, a plaintiff in this lawsuit. he s also the author of all boys aren t blue, a book that has been removed from the escambia school district. thank you so much, good to see both of you here. antonia, why don t you lay out the arguments of this lawsuit for us and how it fits into the bigger picture. ana, what they re arguing is that this school district, escambia county schools in florida, that they ve systematically removed books from the shelves, from access to students there and in some cases have not followed their own district policies. that s what pen america has laid out in this lawsuit, and penguin, a number of authors and two parents in the district who ark in the lawsuit that the removal of these books has harmed