Velshi Banned Book Club

Episode

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• Star-Crossed Lovers 10.10.2024 42mnt

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• Memoir as a Medium 03.10.2024 32mnt

  Featuring "Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body" by Roxane Gay and "The Glass Castle: A Memoir" by Jeannette Walls
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• Coming to America 19.09.2024 38mnt

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• A Legacy of Advocacy 12.09.2024 38mnt

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• The Power of Dystopian Literature 12.09.2024 44mnt

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• Introducing: Season 2 of “Velshi Banned Book Club” 05.09.2024 1mnt

  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.
• The Constitution of the United States: A Complete Reading 12.10.2023 1j 1mnt

  Featuring the U.S. Constitution
• The Black Literary Canon 05.10.2023 50mnt

  Featuring "Beloved" by Toni Morrison and "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
• Reclaiming “Chick-Lit” 28.09.2023 26mnt

  Featuring "Ready or Not" by Meg Cabot and "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Latino Identity in Literature 21.09.2023 22mnt

  Featuring “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe” by Benjamin Alire Sáenz and “Out of Darkness” by Ashley Hope Pérez
• Reexamining and Reframing U.S. History with Nikole Hannah-Jones 14.09.2023 14mnt

  Featuring "The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story" by Nikole Hannah-Jones
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  Featuring "Nineteen Minutes" by Jodi Picoult and "Give a Boy a Gun" by Todd Strasser
• The Prodigious Margaret Atwood 31.08.2023 57mnt

  Featuring "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood, "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare, and "Hagseed" by Margaret Atwood
• Coming of Age as a Black Teen in America 31.08.2023 25mnt

  Featuring "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely and "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone
• LGBTQ+ Coming of Age Stories 24.08.2023 36mnt

  Featuring "Two Boys Kissing" by David Levithan and "Boy Erased" by Garrard Conley