Librarians speak out against book banning; Fentanyl overdose deaths in Tenn. prisons
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In 2021, an unprecedented number of attempts to ban books made teaching even tougher, according to the American Library Association. Most of these targeted books were by or about Black or LGBTQ people. Librarian Jennisen Lucas joins us. And, deadly overdoses have jumped more than eightfold in Tennessee prisons since the start of the pandemic. WPLN's Samantha Max reports.