Yara Sayeh Shahidi (born February 10, 2000) is an American actress and model, best known for playing Zoey on the sitcom Black-ish.Shahidi was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to a mixed African-American and Native Choctaw mother, Keri Salter Shahidi, and an Iranian-American father, Afshin Shahidi.In September 2014, Shahidi starred in ABC’s prime-time comedy Black-ish as 14-year-old Zoey Johnson. In December 2014 she won an NAACP Image Award in the category of ‘Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy’.In 2016 she signed to model with New York’s Women Management modeling agency, in hopes of providing a platform to see more women of color in diverse roles.
Greetings to you,the beauty skinned Greetings to you,the black loner in fair eyes. You,with broken backs in cotten fields, Broken statures in the entityof times. Greetingsto you messengers of peace, in the land of war. War messengers of the peace, in the land of foe.