Last year, The Hate U Give—a teen drama starring Amandla Stenberg based on Angie Thomas’s bestselling novel of the same name, which premieres on HBO tonight—introduced moviegoers to a ...

Algee Smith's scenes in 'The Hate U Give' are incredibly difficult to watch ... Like most of the cast members, Khalil read the book this film was based on and understood the gravity of what ...

Khalil is dead, and Starr, the only witness to what becomes a nationally reported crime, has never felt more like she’s in hiding. The title “The Hate U Give” comes from Tupac Shakur’s j ...

The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the ... prequel to The Hate U Give. USA TODAY has partnered ...

The Hate U Give is set to hit theaters nationwide on Oct. 19, but before you see the film, check out the key ways the movie differs from the printed story. While Starr and Khalil's friendship is ...

In The Hate U Give, his name is Khalil (Algee Smith), and a police officer shoots him in front of his friend Starr (Amandla Stenberg) after they get pulled over while driving home from a party.

As Amandla Stenberg prepared for her lead role in the film adaptation of The Hate ... Khalil when he mistakes his hairbrush for a weapon. Thomas told NPR she was inspired to write The Hate U Give ...

Angie Thomas’s “The Hate U Give,” a best-selling book and film ... who has to cope with the shooting of her best friend Khalil Harris, and her journey to find a sense of identity within ...

Amandla Stenberg plays a girl who witnesses a police shooting in George Tillman's adaptation of Angie Thomas's 'The Hate U Give ... neighborhood and runs into Khalil (Algee Smith), a friend ...

Adapted from Angie Thomas’ 2017 bestselling YA novel by screenwriter Audrey Wells, The Hate U Give may be a fictional story, but what happens to Khalil echoes the tragedies at the center of the ...

To read The Hate U Give as a young black person is to stand ... who shoot and kill her other childhood friend Khalil—a headline that is all-too-familiar and yet still is painful to read in ...