Yara Shahidi Wows Crowd at GLSEN Respect Awards with Powerful Speech About Equality

Yara Shahidi knows how to make the most of the spotlight.
The grown-ish actress, 18, brought the audience to its feet during the 2018 GLSEN Respect Awards in Los Angeles on Friday, delivering empowering and wise words encouraging open-mindedness and equal rights as she took home the GLSEN Gamechanger Award.
“We should all feel deserved and supported in expressing our right to being our whole selves, limited by nothing regardless of ethnicity, gender identities, sexuality, ability