the hate u give
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Amandla Stenberg Responds To Ignorant Claims She Steals Roles from Darker-skinned Black Women
After the 'Children of Blood and Bone' cast was announced, there has been backlash on social media.
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‘The Acolyte’ Star Amandla Stenberg Blames ‘Hyper-Conservative Bigotry’ For ‘Star Wars’ Series’ Cancellation
‘It's not a huge shock for me…there has been a rampage of vitriol that we have faced since the show was announced,’ the actress said on Instagram.
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Racists Are Review Bombing Black-led Star Wars Series ‘The Acolyte’ Despite High Ratings From Real Critics
Once again, Star Wars fans show their true colors when a person of color or woman gets to shine in a galaxy far, far away.
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Beloved Black Banned Books You Must Read Now
In honor of Banned Books Week, check out one of these amazing reads that stays in conservative crosshairs
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Our Favorite Audiobooks Narrated by Black Voices
Trevor Noah's award-winning memoir and a classic Walter Mosley crime novel are on our list of books we love to listen to.
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'I Said I Would Never Play a Slave': Black Actors Discuss the Fatigue Around Portraying Black Pain
As we’ve witnessed throughout the past few months, Hollywood is in the midst of a racial reckoning—or at least, starting to have that conversation on an unprecedented scale. As part of Variety’s #Represent series, Aldis Hodge, Jay Pharoah, Algee Smith, Derek Luke and Chris Chalk got candid about their experiences with racism in Hollywood in…
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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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2019 BET Awards: Cardi B! She Bad, She Bad, She Bad—Leads With 7 Nominations
The blackest night in entertainment is returning for another round this summer! You hear that? It’s the sound of Bardi Gang rolling their tongues to scream a rousing, “Okurrt!” That’s right, 2019 is the year of Cardi B, who leads the pack of 2019 BET Awards nominations. The Invasion of Privacy artist racked in a…
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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,…