In the 2018 American drama film "The Hate U Give," Issa Rae portrays April Ofrah, a civil rights attorney and the mother of the protagonist, Starr Carter. The film, based on Angie Thomas's 2017 novel of the same name, tackles themes of racial profiling, police brutality, and the Black Lives Matter movement.
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