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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