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NBC Evening News for Tuesday, Feb 01, 2022
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Back now with our NBC News exclusive in the growing effort to ban books from some school library, certain titles disappearing from the shelves in Texas in record numbers. Here's Antonia Hylton Iris Cheng remembers the first time she saw herself in a book. It was the Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. So it was really compelling to see this accurate portrayal of what my culture looks like and what I as a person represent. Iris, who identifies as queer, always loved learning about the world from her homet...
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