And like Black YA literature ... All the Says to Come." Angie Thomas: The author and activist's debut novel, 2017's "The Hate U Give," began as her senior project at Belhaven University.

"All wonderful authors.” But as a teen, “I just was not being introduced to their works.” More: 10 must-read Black History Month book recommendations: Cicely Tyson, Angie Thomas and more ...

author Angie Thomas joined the masses protesting police brutality and racial injustice on the streets of her hometown of Jackson, Miss. Amid fervent chants of “Black Lives Matter” and clenched ...

author Angie Thomas wanted to rap as a teenager. But she wasn’t good at it, so she decided to study creative writing when she got to college. As the only Black student in the creative writing ...

Angie Thomas: It’s been in me for ... you guys failed me because you didn’t give me books. I had to look to hip-hop to show me myself.” One young black boy came up to me and said, “Yo ...

“Black History is American History ... The Hate U Give (2017) by Angie Thomas In recent years, it was nearly impossible to miss conversations surrounding Angie Thomas’ undeniably popular ...

But “Banned Books: Defending the Right to Read,” which also featured “The Hate U Give” author Angie Thomas ... was inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement and offered a critical ...

Black writers across the country have used those same platforms to inspire hope and condemn White supremacy. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the How to be an Antiracist, used Twitter to demand that ...

Soon after Angie Thomas released her debut young adult ... I take issue with that because these are things that Black kids are dealing with. My biggest wish is that the people who challenge my books ...

Published in 2017, this novel tells the story of a Black teenager whose life is changed when she witnesses the police unjustly shooting her childhood friend. Written by author Angie Thomas (born ...

Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk and ... how rarely she saw people like herself in the books she read as a child and how often Black characters in romance fiction were relegated ...

Author Angie Thomas will visit Syracuse in April as the ... where it remained for 50 weeks. Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, The Hate U Give was longlisted for the National Book ...