Fielding questions from Cori Murray, the entertainment director of Essence magazine, the four talked about the empathy-building power of books, the difficulty of code-switching, and what “the hate u give” really means.įollowing are highlights from June’s panel conversation, lightly edited for length and clarity. At New York City’s BookCon in June, author Angie Thomas joined Tillman and Stenberg for a panel discussion, along with Girl Meets World’s Sabrina Carpenter, who plays Starr’s controlling white friend Hailey.
and starring The Hunger Games’ Amandla Stenberg. The Hate U Give is now adapted into a movie that goes into wide release on October 19, directed by George Tillman Jr. Starr is the only witness to the police shooting of her childhood friend Khalil, and over the course of the book, she becomes the center of the ensuing fallout. The central character in The Hate U Give is Starr, a 16-year-old black girl who has become a master of code-switching as she travels back and forth between her white private school and her black home neighborhood.
2 for a bit.) It’s a bona fide sensation of a book, and with good reason: It’s a YA novel that handles the problems of police shooting unarmed black men with thoughtfulness, warmth, and profound empathy. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas has been on the New York Times’s best-seller list for 85 weeks now, and for most of those weeks, it’s been at No.
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