And that’s why they’re banned. This series reads the books they don’t want you to. We’ll explore why each work was censored, what truth it threatened, and how those same forces still shape today’s political, racial, and cultural battles. You’ll see patterns. You’ll recognize language. And you’ll realize that the fight against banned books is the fight for memory itself.

In 1929, W.E.B. Du Bois debated T. Lothrop Stoddard in what should be one of the most remembered intellectual battles in U.S. history. Du Bois stood for reason, dignity, and democracy. Stoddard stood for eugenics, white nationalism, and the fear of a multiracial future.