Banned Books Week is an important moment to discuss stories that get suppressed, ignored, or distorted. Carol Anderson's work has been at middle of efforts to suppress those stories.

On January 6, 2021, armed insurrectionists besieged the United States Capitol in the name of patriotism. To some, it was an unexpected and shocking attack on democracy. To others, it was a noble attempt to rescue a nation on the brink of collapse. For Carol Anderson, the Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University, the insurrection was a predictable coda to more than two centuries of deeply entrenched American myths.

To kick off Banned Books Week, Anderson and Nadine Farid Johnson of PEN/America will explore the full meaning of the events of January 6, 2021, following a screening of "I, Too."

Anderson's work contends with attempts to silence or distort crucial narratives, a key concern that Banned Books Week seeks to address. Her book White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide has been challenged.

What happens, Andersons asks, when we discover that the history we teach our children is comprised of fables not facts; when the gulf between soaring rhetoric and cynical policy is too wide to ignore; when white supremacy is allowed to thrive? In "I, Too," Anderson embarks on a journey to shine a light on stories that reveal how we reached this inflection point in American history, as we strive to narrow the gap between who we say we are as a nation…and who we actually are.