{"id":6167,"date":"2017-05-03T18:20:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T18:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsincerity.us\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2023-05-19T05:40:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T05:40:22","slug":"writer-turned-black-lives-matter-movement-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kilde.org\/new-sincerity\/writer-turned-black-lives-matter-movement-art\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Hate U Give’ Shows Why Black Lives Matter, Well, Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"

News of death and destruction has so many of us feeling blue, but one young Black woman turned a popular movement into art in super awesome ways.
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\nIn recent years, Black Lives Matter has spearheaded a movement for the importance of the lives of Black people in the face of police brutality. For writer Angie Thomas, however, the movement was both a source of pain and inspiration for her debut novel, \u201cThe Hate U Give<\/a>\u201d. After witnessing the death of Oscar Grant III and the protests that ensued, Thomas decided to use the movement\u2019s core belief, that Black people and their lives matter, as the basis for her novel:
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\n“I was seeing so many young people, particularly, have those same feelings because every time we would see these cases the victims were young. Trayvon Martin was 17. Tamir Rice was 12. So when I set out to write it, I wanted to not only write it for myself to get my feelings out, but to write it for the kids that I saw in my neighborhood every single day affected by these cases. I didn\u2019t set out to make it the Black Lives Matter novel. But I wrote in hopes of having people understand why we say, Black Lives Matter.”<\/span><\/p>\n


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