Angie Thomas (born 1988) is an American author who was born, raised and continues to live in Jackson, Mississippi. She wrote the young adult novel The Hate U Give and released her second novel, On the Come Up on February 5th this year. Although fiction, the goal of Thomas' work is to shine a light on the issues that many African Americans in the United States face and to shed more light on the Black Lives Matter movement. While Angie Thomas was a college student, she heard about the shooting of Oscar Grant in the news. This story, combined with the stories of Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Mike Brown, and Sandra Bland were major influences on her novel The Hate U Give. Before The Hate U Give.

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