It's Friday May 19th, I'm Trayville Anderson, and I'm Josie Duffy-Race, and this is What A Day.

For the more we learn about Harry and Meghan's wild ride, the less it makes sense.

Like quantum physics, or the movie tenet.

It's worse in the movie tenet, with all due respect.

The math is not mathing.

On Today's show, New Reports indicate that Senator Diane Feinstein's condition is worse than what was previously disclosed.

Plus, the Los Angeles Dodgers cut a legendary San Francisco Drag activist group from the team's upcoming Pride Night celebration.

But first, on yesterday's show, we mentioned a federal lawsuit fighting back against a book ban carried out by Florida's Escambia County School District and School Board.

This suit brings together authors whose books have been banned, parents and students in the school district who cannot access the books that have been banned, and a publisher, Penguin Random House, and a first of its kind challenge to this censorship.

The organization Penn America, whose work is at the intersection of literature and human rights, is also involved.

Now, we have been discussing on the show how these book bans, in addition to Don't Say Gay Laws, and Antichritical Race Theory Discourse, are part of a concerted effort to erase people and further marginalized communities, trans people, and queer culture and black history, especially.

And a little over a year ago, we spoke to author George M. Johnson about their book All Boys Aren't Blue, which at the time was being targeted in about 14 states.

Well, in the year since, that opposition has increased significantly, and they ended last year with the second most banned book of the year.

George M. Johnson is one of the authors part of that lawsuit against Escambia County, and so we wanted to reconnect with them about the fight ahead.

I started my conversation with George by asking about what this last year has been like for them.

I feel like there are times where I live in like two separate worlds, because I've been able to do a lot more traveling to speak to college students, but also to speak to high school students, and even middle school students.

So it's like in one part of my world, I'm watching how this book is immediately impacting the lives of so many different students who need it.

And then on the other part of my world, I'm watching parents of some of these same students say that they don't want their kids reading a book that their child is literally telling me is the book that saved their life.

And so watching and living in that duality of this has been very, very interesting.

I saw this statement made by some lawmaker who basically was like, if their child decided to be trans, they would rather that their child just died by suicide.

That's where we're at with this, right? Because at first it was about, we have to protect the kids.

We have to do this. But now we know you don't even care about the kids anymore, right?

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