Everything U Think Is True: Yara Shahidi Honors Her Family History with Prince

By Maiysha Kai  via https://theglowup.theroot.com/

Many know Yara Shahidi as the adorable and irrepressible Zoey Johnson on Black-ish’s hit spinoff Grown-ish, but fewer know about her roots as a Minneapolis girl—like myself—and her ties to our most famous fellow native.

Shahidi’s father, Afshin Shahidi, was Prince’s longtime personal photographer and videographer, capturing the star in both intimate and iconic moments since they first worked together in 1989. In particular, Shahidi documented much of the last 15 years of Prince’s life, which were immortalized in the 2017 book, Prince: A Private View.

Two years after the star’s sudden death in 2016, the Shahidi father and …

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