The Fire This Time: Black History Surviving in the Time of Modern-Day Book Banning
Release Date: 02/10/2023
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EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode, the hosts discuss Black History and the historical use of book burning, book banning, and other methods to suppress inconvenient truths. False narratives flourish when voices remain silent are have been removed from the discussion.
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A FEW KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE
- Denying Black people education and banning books is part of historical pattern to control access to information to control the narrative
- This practice of banning and burning books has been used throughout history by people in power wishing to keep power
- ChatGPT disagress with the governor of Florida on the educational value of AP African American History
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Current effort to ban books
https://afro.com/10-banned-books-that-are-crucial-to-black-culture/
These 176 Books Were Banned in Duval County, Florida - PEN America
Ruby Bridges speaks out on book bans: 'Surely we are better than this' (yahoo.com)
Why Book Ban Efforts Are Spreading Across the U.S. - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
https://www.encyclopedia.com/
https://encyclopediavirginia.
Reconquista
https://www.history.com/this-
https://bennorton.com/the-
The Politics of education and text books
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/12/us/texas-vs-california-history-textbooks.html
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