The Hate U Give (THUG ... she visits in The Hate U Give. A former teen rapper, she recently won the inaugural Walter Dean Myers Grant awarded by the We Need Diverse Books campaign.

"We should have legitimate arguments to bring to the people who make decisions as it relates to the content that we're ...

The Hate U Give is the award-winning debut novel by author ... On her official website, Thomas states that she ‘looks at books as being a form of activism. Sometimes they’ll show us a side ...