Topic: Books
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Listen: Ali Velshi Banned Book Club on Gay Penguins and Book Bans
The MSNBC host and Citizen board member sits down with authors Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, authors of And Tango Makes Three, to talk about the contemporary children's classic about non traditional families and the efforts to ban it
By Ali Velshi![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Velshi-The-Poet-X-791x400.jpg)
Listen: Ali Velshi Banned Book Club Banning The Poet X
The MSNBC host and Citizen board member speaks with National Young Person’s Poet Laureate Elizabeth Acevedo about young women learning the art of self-expression against the grain of faith and family
By Ali Velshi![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Velshi-Dragonwings-791x400.jpg)
Listen: Ali Velshi Banned Book Club on Erasing Immigrant Stories
The MSNBC host and Citizen board member speaks with Laurence Yep about the immigrant experience in America and how important those stories are to our history
By Ali Velshi![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Zeke-Hernandez-Truth-About-Immigration-791x400.jpg)
The Citizen Recommends: The Truth About Immigration Book Event
A Wharton professor will share 20 years of research about the benefits of immigration for all of us at a Welcoming Center event on June 4
By Delaney Parks![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Velshi-Glass-Castle-791x400.jpg)
Listen: Ali Velshi Banned Book Club Reads The Glass Castle
The MSNBC host and Citizen board member sits down with Jeannette Walls to talk about her provocative memoir and the complications and ugliness of real life
By Ali Velshi![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Velshi-teachers-union--791x400.jpg)
Listen: Ali Velshi Banned Book Club Sits Down with Randi Weingarten
The MSNBC host and Citizen board member interviews the new president of the American Federation of Teachers about her efforts to take on book bans
By Ali Velshi![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Eisenberg_Book_Reccomendations-791x400.jpg)
Emma Eisenberg’s Local Book Recommendations
The Blue Stoop founder and author of the new novel, Housemates, on the best new books to read this summer by local authors
By Emma Copley Eisenberg![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Emma-and-Housemates-2-791x400.jpg)
Building a City of Writerly Love
As she was writing Housemates, her new novel about creating art, Emma Copley Eisenberg helped start and foster an organization that makes it a little easier to create art in Philadelphia
By Courtney DuChene