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Sat Jul 12, 2025, 11:42 PM Jul 12

Velshi Banned Book Club: 'This Is My America' by Kim Johnson - Velshi - MSNBC



In “This Is My America” by Kim Johnson, our 17-year-old protagonist, Tracy, will stop at nothing until she clears her father and her brother’s name of crimes they did not commit. Interspersed with Tracy’s handwritten letters to Innocence X, a fictionalized Innocence Project, “This Is My America” is an approachable examination of equality, racism, and the prison industrial complex in this country.

Johnson successfully and clearly articulates the urgent and bitter realities of injustice in a way that will resonate for all levels of readership, but especially for the young adult audience she has written for. - Aired on 07/12/2025.

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