Angie Thomas: The Hate U Give

Listen to award-winning author Angie Thomas describe how the horror of police shootings of black youth and the hope of Black Lives Matter inspired her novel The Hate U Give. Her novel has been on the top 10 of the NY Times Bestseller list for a year. Even John Green, the author of The Fault in Our Stars, called it "a stunning, brilliant, gut-wrenching novel that will be remembered as a classic of our time."

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