"Williamson Starr doesn't give anyone a reason to call her ghetto," she says. "And I hate myself for doing it." She keeps her white boyfriend Chris (K.J. Apa), and friends (Sabrina Carpenter and ...

Last year, The Hate U Give—a teen drama starring Amandla Stenberg based on Angie Thomas’s bestselling novel of the same name, which premieres on HBO tonight—introduced moviegoers to a ...

Yet “The Hate U Give,” as directed by George Tillman Jr., from a script by Audrey Wells (who died, after a battle with cancer, the day before the film was released), is the rare racial drama ...

"The Hate U Give " begins with a scene at the family dinner table where a father is giving his young kids "the talk" — the one in which he explains to his 9-year-old daughter, Starr, and toddler ...

Algee Smith’s scenes in ‘The Hate U Give’ are incredibly difficult to watch, but as a ‘young, black man in America,’ the 23-year-old actor had no problem relating to h… ...

Khalil (Algee Smith) and Starr (Amandla Stenberg) in the fateful stop that begins The Hate U Give. It would be enough if The Hate U Give was a drama about the epidemic of police shootings, but it ...

The narrative addresses the range of this hate, from the micro-aggressions Starr endures at the hands of her predominantly white classmates at the elite prep school she attends, to the explicit racism ...

During the 2018 BET Awards, viewers were treated to the first exclusive trailer for one of this year’s most celebrated and talked about new films, The Hate U Give. The book-to-film adaptation of ...

But “The Hate U Give” speaks in a different voice. “I think we have a tendency to place less value on female voices, or at least non-male voices,” says Stenberg (“The Hunger Games”).

Thomas told NPR she was inspired to write The Hate U Give after the fatal shooting of Oscar Grant — a young, African-American man who was killed by a white transit officer in Oakland on New Year ...