As Amandla Stenberg prepared for her lead role in the film adaptation of The Hate U Give, she devoured Angie Thomas' 2017 young adult novel. "Reading the book became this strange, spiritual thing ...

My Brother’s Keeper Newark, an initiative of Newark Opportunity Youth Networ, has announced its 2025 summer reading list, ...

A South Carolina police union is taking a stand against including Angie Thomas’ award-winning novel The Hate U Give on Wando High School students’ summer reading list, The Guardian reports.The ...

Could reading be classed as activism? Angie Thomas certainly thinks so. In 2017, Thomas, who is based in Jackson, Mississippi, shot to fame when her young adult novel The Hate U Give (THUG) gained ...

Angie Thomas. Imani Khayyam. On April 3, I’m thrilled to celebrate the very first We Need Diverse Books Day, which highlights the importance of reading books that reflect our beautifully diverse ...

NPR's Noel King talks to young adult author Angie Thomas about her book: Concrete Rose. It goes back in time to tell the story of the parents of Starr Carter, the teenage girl in The Hate U Give.

Angie Thomas’ debut Young Adult novel “The Hate U Give” is that book for early 2017 — it’s topical, urgent, necessary, and if that weren’t enough, it’s also a highly entertaining and ...

Cultural critic-poet-memoirist Saeed Jones has been announced as Decatur Book Festival’s keynote speaker. Novelist Angie Thomas will give the "kidnote" talk.

Author Angie Thomas speaks with WBUR's Robin ... I’ve read — I’m 23 — which is both relatively young and also feels really old to be the first time I feel I’m reading me on a page ...

This month, the organizers of the Decatur Book Festival announced Saeed Jones and Angie Thomas this year’s keynote and ...

Angie Thomas and George M. Johnson discuss the fight against book bans at a Sunday panel at the 43rd annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) By Jireh Deng ...

Thomas won the organization’s Walter Dean Myers Grant in 2015. In addition to grants, WNDB hosts awards, campaigns to champion diverse reading, mentorship and “adopt a library” programs.