of the velshi banned book club is officially underway, and i am thrilled to be joined again by grace lynninst book bans, and george m. johnson, author of all boys aren't blue, the first ever velshi banned book club feature. grace and george are featured in the academy award-nominated documentary short film the abc's of book banning. welcome to all of you. grace, i mean apologized you off the front, generally, impolite to talk about peoples age all of the time. but you are just a spring check and when we first met you, your hundred years old. your hundred and one, where you talk to you every year about book banning. because since we featured you at the school board speech went viral, book banning efforts have only increased. and efforts to stop and have also increased. has your advice changed in the last year since we last talked? >> first of all, let me thank you for having me on. and thank you for the work you do for us. i am not stopping. i'm only a little over 101 now. and, believe me, i also want to tell you, it was thrilling for me to have met your other guest, george. >> thrilling f

grace lynn, an activist who has been doing this all her life, and it's going to continue to fight for your right to read in for your children to read what you choose. not with the government, now the school board chooses. thank you both for being here. that does it for me catch ridicule for tomorrow from 10 am to noon, eastern. don't get velshi is available as a podcast, you can follow in listen for free wherever you get your podcasts. stay right where you are, the katie phang show starts right now. katie phang show starts ri now. i'm katie phang, live from telemundo studios, miami, florida. here is the week that was. >> why am i back? you maybe ask yourselves. it's a very reasonable question. i have committed a lot of crimes. >> the republican-led house will not be jammed or forced into passing a foreign aid bill that was opposed by most republican senators. it does nothing to secure our own border. >> democrat, tom susie, the winner of the special election in new york. he will replace george santos. >> you can try to put lipstick on this, paid it is still a pig. this is a terrible i

you may remember when injured wondered grace lynn from her impassioned plea last year to keep challengedlves in florida's martin county school districts. she joins us in the velshi banned book club last year in she offered up these wise words. >> every human being is just as important as any other. our children, who maybe a little different from the other children, we can be recognized by their classmates and honored like they are, and that is only one case that i speak about. we need to know that all human beings are just as important as all the other hand, and we should treat them that way. tha wanna know why people are getting a covid-19 shot? i'm turning the big seven-o and getting back on the apps. ha ha ha. variants are out there... and i have mouths to feed. big show coming up, so we got ours and that blue bandage? never goes out of style. i prioritize my health... also, the line was short. didn't get a covid-19 shot in the fall? there's still time. book online or go to your local pharmacy. jordan's sore nose let out a fiery sneeze, so dad grabbed puffs plus lotion to soothe her w