For the director of The Hate U Give movie adaptation, this very particular talk was also an opportunity to set an important and immediate baseline for his movie: challenging an audience's biases.

The cover art illustrator for The Hate U Give has said she "wasn't exactly ... because there's so little opportunities in these big movies for darker-skinned actresses," Cartwright told Vulture.

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The Hate U Give (THUG) is the story of sixteen-year-old Starr – a girl of two worlds. Every day she walks a fine line between the poor inner-city neighbourhood where she was born and raised ...