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Writer - Angie Thomas

Can literature help bridge America's racial divide? HARDtalk鈥檚 Stephen Sackur speaks to Angie Thomas, a writer whose novels address a society rooted in discrimination.

Can literature help bridge America's racial divide? HARDtalk鈥檚 Stephen Sackur speaks to Angie Thomas, a writer whose first novel, The Hate U Give, electrified America with its unflinching portrayal of a teenage black girl confronting police violence, inner city gang culture and a society rooted in discrimination. When it comes to issues of race and racism, the gap between America鈥檚 promise of equality and the reality of entrenched inequality seems depressingly wide. Can hope win out over fear and hate?

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