Many young people are aware of and desire conversation around sensitive topics, as seen in the Oscar-nominated documentary, "The ABCs of Book Banning." Illustration:Jianan Liu/HuffPost;Photo:Getty Images, courtesy of mtv documentary films To hear some adults tell it, adolescents are exposed to troubling and inappropriate messages found in many children’s and young adult books, TV, and film. But one look at the staggering (and growing) list of banned books will give you a sense of what those messages are: 1982’s “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker, a sprawling novel about a queer Black girl who overcomes decades-long physical and sexual abuse...