To show that even as black people, when we're going through our anger and our pain in the midst of these, we're more than anger, we're more than pain.

We're loved.

Oh, man.

We're loved.

And at the core of our emotions is love.

We got to address the suburban women problem because it's real.

Welcome to the suburban women problem, a podcast from red, wine, and blue.

Our guest today is the author of the award-winning New York Times bestselling novels, The Hate You Give, On the Come Up, and Concrete Rose.

She has a brand new book coming out this week called Nick Blake and The Remarkables, The Manifester Prophecy.

Angie Thomas, thank you so much for joining me on The Suburban Women Problem.

Thank you so much for having me.

I would love to start by talking about your book, The Hate You Give, which is such a powerful

book.

We had our band book club read it, and they loved it. It's a young adult novel about a girl

who witnesses a police officer, kill her friend. So what inspired you to write a book

about Black Lives Matter and specifically what inspired you to write it from the perspective

of a teenage girl?

I first got the idea for the book back in 2011 after the death of Oscar Grant in Oakland, California.

I was living in two very different worlds.

I attended a mostly white private college.

And it was just 10 minutes from

my house, but my house was in a mostly black poor neighborhood, both in Jackson, Mississippi.

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