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'The Hate U Give' is a powerful look at Black Lives Matter

'The Hate U Give' is a powerful look at Black Lives Matter Like hurricane winds, the vortex of psychological forces buffeting the calm-eyed 16-year-old at the center of "The Hate U Give," played by a remarkable Amandla Stenberg, at times seems violent enough to tear apart a grown man. Having witnessed the shooting death of her childhood best friend (Algee Smith of "Detroit") - during the kind of routine traffic stop gone wrong that has become distressingly familiar from viral videos - Starr is pushed and pulled in multiple directions over the course of this powerful, timely and deeply moving tale. The residents of Garden Heights, the predominantly black urban community where Starr lives, want her to go before a grand jury, seeking an indictment of the white cop who killed yet another unarmed black teenager. Meanwhile, the neighborhood drug lord, King (Anthony Mackie), would prefer that she keep her mouth shut, since the dead young man worked