Jacqueline Woodson joins Damon to discuss her decorated career and what we can do to combat the legislative effort to ban books from Black and queer authors from classrooms and school libraries. Then journalist Hillary Crosley Coker comes through to celebrate and contextualize the legacy of Jezebel and the rest of the now extinct Gawker Media Network.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Open
00:15 Introduction
01:24 Damon welcomes author Jacqueline Woodson
10:00 Damon and Jacqueline discuss book banning in schools
33:31 Damon actually loves his production team
36:19 Damon welcomes journalist Hillary Crosley Coker
37:47 Hillary discusses the impact of publications like Jezebel shutting down
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