How The "Hunger Games" Team Brought "Mockingjay – Part 1" From The Page To The Screen

Director Francis Lawrence, screenwriter Peter Craig, and producer Nina Jacobson spoke to BuzzFeed News about adapting the final installment of Suzanne Collins’ best-selling franchise. MAJOR SPOILERS!Warning: The following story contains MAJOR SPOILERS for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1. Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1.Murray Close / Lionsgate...

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Meanwhile In America, Brown Girls Are Still Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and she deserved better than a racist joke. Nancy Paulsen Books AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File This past summer, a copy of a book called Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson showed up on my desk. It was a memoir written in poems, about a young black girl raised in South Carolina and New York City....

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