5 things to know about ‘The Hate U Give’, the adaptation of Angie Thomas’ bestselling YA novel

Less than two years after Angie Thomas’ novel The Hate U Give took the book publishing world by storm, it’s made the leap to the big screen.

Directed by George Tillman Jr., the movie, like the book, centers on Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg), a teenage girl from the poor black neighborhood of Garden Heights, who attends a private school in the wealthy white neighborhood of Williamson. 

It’s a bifurcated life, but a mostly manageable one for Starr – until the night she witnesses the murder of her childhood friend at the hands of a police officer.  Read more…

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