A young black student from a poor neighborhood who attends a prep school in an affluent area finds her uneasy life balance further disrupted when she witnesses her childhood friend get shot by a ...

The Hate U Give (THUG) is the story of sixteen-year-old Starr – a girl of two worlds. Every day she walks a fine line between the poor inner-city neighbourhood where she was born and raised ...

In March 1991, black motorist Rodney King was beaten by white police officers in Los Angeles - and it was caught on camera. The trial and subsequent acquittal of the officers involved sparked ...

The police shooting of an unarmed African-American teenager in The Hate U Give, based on the bestselling novel by ... As he did in Malcolm X, which opens with Los Angeles police beating Rodney King, ...

George Holliday used the Sony Video8 Handycam to film King's beating in 1991 The camera used to film the beating of Rodney King by Los ... some kind of hero. Others hate me. They say I deserved ...

The Hate U Give is a book written by the author Angie ... especially when Starr’s little brother Sekani pulls a gun on King, a local drug dealer who in countless moments in the movie created ...

On the one hand, it seems rather in poor taste to turn this real-life uprising, which sparked when a jury acquitted police officers for the use of excessive force in the beating of Rodney King ...

Footage of black motorist Rodney King being beaten by four white police officers in LA in 1991 - while others looked on - caused outrage around the world, and was a major factor in triggering ...

Rodney King had already been tinkering for 20 years ... with 150,000 convenience stores and nearly one million retail outlets in the U.S. "We're trying to cast a wide net," Zack, who oversees ...

it's about just pillars of the community wanting to connect and give back,” said Kenny. This year, like last, Barbers Who Care is bringing back former Eagle Rodney McLeod’s Change Our Future ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University football offensive players Garrett Greene, Rodney Gallagher III and Xavier ...