Tag: humanitarian

• Yara Shahidi

  

  Yara Shahidi plays Zoey on ABC’s Black-ish. She’s only 16 years old and already brands herself as a budding humanitarian and activist (her words). I recently ran across Yara’s work on Tracee Ellis Ross’s Instagram page. Tracee wrote, “🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾I don’t remember being this ‘woke’ or this clear when I was her age, but intelligent, conscious young women like my…

  BriAlys

  July 2016

  Black is Beautiful, Education, Entertainment, Thoughts, TV

  activism, actress, art, backish, entertainment, humanitarian, shahdid, tv, yara

• Jesse Williams

  

  I didn’t watch the BET Awards this year. But from what I saw on social media Beyonce Jesse Williams won the night. Jesse was presented BET’s 2016 Humanitarian Award. Watch his speech below. 💙

  BriAlys

  June 2016

  Black is Beautiful

  bet, betawards, equal, equality, free, freespeech, humanitarian, jesse, jessewilliams, justice, racism, speech, truth, williams