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Nia Long Joins Let the World See to Give Voice to Mamie Till-Mobley’s Words
Nia Long will voice the words of Mamie Till-Mobley in ABC’s Let the World See docuseries.
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Michelle Obama, Common to Appear in Emmett Till Docuseries Let the World See
Former First Lady Michelle Obama and Common will offer personal insights in docuseries Let the World See.
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Emmett Till Docuseries Let the World See Premieres in January
ABC sets docuseries Let the World See as companion to limited series Women of the Movement.
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PageTurners: It's Getting Hot in Here
Hot off the press literary releases to help you keep cool in this heatwave.
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Black Creativity Abounds in These Latest Project Announcements From Issa Rae, Kenya Barris, John Legend and Sanaa Lathan
The multi-hyphenate creatives are truly living up to the creed "Booked and Busy."
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PageTurners: We’re in for a Helluva Literary Year
One of my New Year’s resolutions is to find joy in reading again. I had this same goal last year–and let’s face it, every year for a while now–and even felt the hope of achieving that goal when we all went into lockdown, assuming I would have plenty of time to read and get back…
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The Hate U Give Author Angie Thomas Is About to Hit Us With a New Novel, Concrete Rose
Black lives matter and so do black stories. Author Angie Thomas embodies that statement, and if you thought she was done giving us raw and brutally honest depictions of black reality with her novel-turned-film The Hate U Give, I have news for you: She ain’t. According to People, the acclaimed author has written a new…
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With On the Come Up, Bestselling Author Angie Thomas Continues Her Crusade: ‘I Can See Myself Writing About Black Girls From Here on Out’
Angie Thomas, author of the breakout novel The Hate U Give, remains steadfast about the types of stories she wants to tell, how she wants to tell them and to whom she’s speaking. In the poignant, powerful debut—pegged a “Black Lives Matter book”—Thomas introduced us to 16-year-old Starr Carter, a witty, complicated, code-switching black girl…
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28 Days of Literary Blackness with VSB | Day 25: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Publisher Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward,…
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The Hate U Give Isn't a Very Good Movie and It's Very Hard to Say That Out Loud
On October 3, Wesley Morris, in a piece for the New York Times Magazine titled “The Morality Wars,” sounded the alarm (in a nutshell) about the difficulty in critiquing black art in today’s political climate in favor of protecting the culture. Basically, he said that because the stakes are higher for black art, it has…