KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Behind the walls of the Tennessee Valley Universalist Unitarian Church, there’s a collection of 2,000 books aimed to make diverse stories and voices more accessible to the public. Some of those titles have been in recent banned book discussions.
Cofounders of the Children’s Diversity and Justice Library, Miriam Davis and Catherine Farmer Loya, have been running the library with the help of donations for around six years.
“The idea came originally out of work we were doing in the church to think about how to diversify our children’s education curriculum,” Davis said. “We realized there’s no reason why we can’t open that library to the public.”…