Learn about The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, which follows Starr Carter, a 16-year-old black girl from a poor neighborhood who attends an elite private school in a predominately white, affluent part of the city. Starr becomes entangled in a national news story after she witness a white police officer shoot and kill her childhood friend, Khalil. She speaks up about the shooting in increasingly public ways, and social tensions culminate in a riot after a grand jury decides not to indict the police officer for the shooting. This text is available through Creative Commons.
