Introducing: Season 2 of “Velshi Banned Book Club”

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🗓️ 5 September 2024

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MSNBC's Ali Velshi brings you a second season of the “Velshi Banned Book Club.” Book banning is happening more and more. Removing literature from library shelves, school syllabi, and summer reading lists isn’t just blatant censorship; it is the tip of the sword that threatens American democracy itself. Featuring critically acclaimed and culturally impactful literature – including work by Tim O’Brien, Roxane Gay, Lois Lowry, and Stephen Chbosky – the second season of the “Velshi Banned Book Club” puts the booking banning epidemic into necessary context. Read along with Ali Velshi and follow now to listen to the first two episodes on Thursday, September 12th . Subscribe to MSNBC Premium on Apple Podcasts for early access to every episode the week before it drops, ad-free listening, and bonus content: https://link.chtbl.com/vbbcs2_fdtw

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0:00.0	I'm Ali Velshi and the Velshi Band Book Club is back for a second season.
0:06.0	In the past year, book bands and challenges have surged, targeting libraries, schools and communities across the nation.
0:13.9	This is not just about censorship.
0:16.4	It's the tip of the spear of an anti-Democratic movement that threatens the freedoms that most
0:20.9	Americans take for granted. And it affects students, the next generation
0:25.1	of Americans, the most.
0:27.4	This book saved me in a lot of ways as I was writing it and then I published it hoping to
0:32.4	help people find a blueprint to heal whatever
0:36.0	they've gone through. This season of the Velshe Band Book Club will feature all
0:40.3	new literature and authors including Tim O'Brien, Jacqueline Woodson, Roxanne Gay,
0:47.0	Lois Lowry, Stephen Chbosky, and many more.
0:51.2	These stories are all different from each other.
0:53.8	Distopian, memoir, poetry, but they all impart a crucial truth.
1:00.3	When people object to the book and try to ban the book, they're kind of caught because there's no explicit sex or violence, and so they take out of context small things that they think they might find objectionable.
1:14.9	But I think what they're really objecting to, and they don't know this, but it's pervasive
1:20.2	within their reading, is that a young person has perceived the hypocrisy and corruption
1:26.6	of the governance of the generation that has created their world.
1:32.3	Read along with me Ali Velshi. that has created their world.
1:35.0	Read along with me, Ali Velshi, and follow now to listen to the first two episodes
1:38.0	on Thursday, September 12th.
1:40.0	You can also subscribe to MS NBC Premium on Apple Podcasts for early access to every episode
1:47.2	the week before it drops and add free listening to all episodes of the first and second seasons.
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