{"id":44395,"date":"2015-11-30T02:37:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T02:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44395"},"modified":"2015-11-30T02:56:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T02:56:44","slug":"black-ish-star-yara-shahidi-is-a-role-model-off-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44395","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Black-ish\u2019 Star Yara Shahidi Is a Role Model Off-Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Black-ish\u2019 Star Yara Shahidi Is a Role Model Off-Screen<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2015-11-27<\/p>\n

Hannah Seligson<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nMs. Shahidi, 15, won the N.A.A.C.P. Image Award<\/a> for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series this year. Credit Emily Berl for The New York Times<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cLife as a teenager can be down right chaotic,\u201d the actress Yara Shahidi<\/a>, 15, told an audience last month at Cipriani 42nd Street, where she was being honored by the Young Women\u2019s Leadership Network<\/a>. \u201cWe must also realize that it is up to us whether these years will feel like a melancholy struggle or an opportunity for growth or experiences of a lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Ms. Shahidi, it\u2019s certainly the latter.<\/p>\n

As the actress who plays Zoey, the smart but entitled daughter on ABC\u2019s \u201cBlack-ish<\/a>,\u201d a situation comedy about a prosperous black family wrestling with racial issues, Ms. Shahidi certainly has a platform to be heard. But she has not stopped there.<\/p>\n

When she\u2019s not taping \u201cBlack-ish,\u201d she is a full-time social activist, inspiring young women to excel academically, volunteering at medical clinics and starting her own mentoring club…<\/p>\n

There are few African-American actresses her age who are having the kind of cultural and social impact that Ms. Shahidi is, both on and off screen. This year, she was nominated for a Teen Choice Award for best breakout star. She won a N.A.A.C.P. Image Award<\/a> for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series…<\/p>\n

…Activism runs in her family. \u201cI was raised by a bunch of humanitarians,\u201d she said, referring to her African-American mother, Keri-Salter Shahidi<\/a>, a commercial actress, and her Iranian father, Afshin Shahidi<\/a>, a cinematographer. Her maternal grandfather was involved in the civil rights movement…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018Black-ish\u2019 Star Yara Shahidi Is a Role Model Off-Screen The New York Times 2015-11-27 Hannah Seligson Ms. Shahidi, 15, won the N.A.A.C.P. Image Award for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series this year. Credit Emily Berl for The New York Times \u201cLife as a teenager can be down right chaotic,\u201d the actress Yara Shahidi, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,20],"tags":[18362,22128,2640,2327,22129],"class_list":["post-44395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-black-ish","tag-hannah-seligson","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-yara-shahidi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44396,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44395\/revisions\/44396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}