Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: This Is Nashville
Episode: Book-banning bills have potential to reshape the future of school libraries in Tennessee
Description: In January Tennessee made national news when the Pulitzer Prize winning Holocaust memoir Maus was banned by the McMinn County school board. This was just the beginning of a much larger debate about books, obscenity and "age-appropriateness" that has been raging across the state.Â
In this episode, host Khalil Ekulona sits down with WPLN News political reporter Blaise Gainey to learn more about three recent bills that would ban or limit books in schools.Then we hear from librarians, authors, parents and students on how these bills could impact education in Middle Tennessee.
Today's episode i...