The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas was inspired by the black lives matter movement and explores police brutality — so why is it being taken off library shelves in the US?
Banned Books is a new series that looks at what's driving book bans worldwide.
The series begins in America where books about race and racism have become a lightning rod for censorship in public libraries and state schools
Guests:
Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give (original 2017 interview)
Kasey Meehan, program director for Freedom to Read, PEN America
Tracie D Hall, former executive director of the American Library Association
Maxine Beneba Clarke, Australian memoirist, poet, children's book author. Her poem There's a Shelf in the Library is in her latest poetry collection It's the Sound of the Thing.
Find the other episodes in the series here.
