24-year-old actress Yara Shahidi felt protected when she entered the entertainment industry. At just 6 weeks old, she landed a photo shoot gig for a life insurance company, and by 6 years old, she had ...

Yara Shahidi is starting her own podcast series in collaboration with her mother, Keri Shahidi. The Optimist Project will explore how change makers in their industry have fought the odds and ...

Yara Shahidi and Marcus Scribner first joined the Johnson family a decade ago. The then-child actors landed starring roles in ABC’s black-ish as Zoey and Andre Johnson, the eldest two of five ...

“I’ve known I wanted to go to college since I was four. By 17, I knew exactly what I wanted to study,” the actress said. Yara Shahidi graduated from Harvard University on Friday and she and her proud ...

Black-ish star Yara Shahidi got some help from former First Lady Michelle Obama on the nerve-racking college application process. In a recent interview with W Magazine, the 17-year-old actress opened ...