Bonus: Banned Books
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🗓️ 5 December 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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In this episode of NPR's It's Been A Minute senior editor Barrie Hardymon and Traci Thomas, host of The Stacks podcast, joined guest host Ayesha Rascoe to talk about banned book lists.The three talk about why it's important for kids to discover books freely, even if that means starting a hard conversation with them. They also discuss their favorite — and least favorite — books that often show up on banned book lists.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there consider this listener's it's Audie Cornish with a weekend listen for you now this year |
| 0:05.7 | There's been a lot of talk about what books should and should not be allowed in public schools |
| 0:10.7 | So our friends at its been a minute wanted to take a fresh look at that conversation |
| 0:15.8 | guest host Ayisha Roscoe talked with NPR senior editor Barry Hardiman and Tracy Thomas of the stacks podcast about |
| 0:23.7 | Why it's important for kids to discover books freely and they consider the merits and flaws of a few of the books that are frequently banned here's Ayisha |
| 0:36.9 | What's your favorite book my |
| 0:40.1 | All about easy book |
| 0:43.8 | Oh, yes, so the all about ebbook Gabrielle. What's your favorite book my favorite book? |
| 0:49.2 | It's the dinosaur one now anna lease |
| 0:53.7 | What is your favorite book? |
| 0:56.4 | What do you like about wacky Wednesday? |
| 1:03.7 | Everything was wacky |
| 1:05.7 | Three two one |
| 1:11.8 | Hey everybody you're listening to it's been a minute from NPR I'm Ayisha Roscoe feeling in for Sam Sanders |
| 1:18.1 | And today we're talking about books and the recent battles over some of them |
| 1:23.4 | Now what does society teaches its children really says something about what it values? |
| 1:28.3 | So it's no surprise that schools have been ideological battlegrounds over and over again |
| 1:34.1 | This year we've seen the backlash against so-called critical race theory and also a push for state laws targeting trans kids |
| 1:42.5 | These fights have trickled down to school libraries and classrooms in which books you should or shouldn't find there |
| 1:49.6 | Calls to ban books are popping up all over the place |
| 1:52.9 | Texas Republicans are launching an investigation into what types of books school districts have specifically ones that pertain to race and sexuality |
| 2:00.8 | A Texas state lawmaker recently put together a list of roughly |
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