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do the next women.[Yara] We want to empower others. As four young black girls working together we want to show others that we should work with and support other females

What are you hoping to achieve as a group?[Zendaya] We want to continue doing videos, making spoken words and raising awareness. [Willow] Drawing attention to matters close to our herts is what we have all been about and what we will contin- ue to be about [Amandla] We are

all interested in creating oppor-tunities for people as we our-selves know people of colour are not able to take these roles and opportunities if they are not there.[Yara] I think we would also like to start making short films and eventually make actual produc-tions and venturing into more things.

What is your message for young black girls wanting to follow in your footsteps?

[Willow] Strive for your dreams, believe the hype. Black girls are magic and you can achieve anything they want to. The co-lour of your skin should never an obstacle.

“Which artists, actors and activists do you look up to?Beyoncé, Erykah Badu, Viola Davis, Janelle Monae, there are so many!

Style hero?Solange!

What are you listening to right now?The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, definitely a time-less album, we could listen to it forever

What are you watching?We are trying to catch up with Orange is the new black even though we have seen all the spoilers :(

Favourite shop?H&M and Asos but we love shopping at vintage shops for ‘throwback’ clothing

Go to snacks?Popcorn!

What is your favourite app?Tidal, Uber and Twitter

We are described as a young group speaking on black culture and the social issues, stigmas and in-justices

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The girls can be found on all of their offical Twitter, You-tube, Instagram and Tumblr accounts at @Amandlas @purplefluer @Zendaya @Yarashahdi

Drawing atten-tion to matters is what we have all been about and what we will continue to be about ”

audience is sharing what we put out all over social media with older audiences.[Willow] People who are just five years older than us end not to want to hear what we have to say because people don’t want to be educated by young girls. People tend to feel like we don’t know what were talking about. However i feel if anything our age has contrib-uted to the amount of media acknowledgement.

The group has received a lot of media attention because of the topics you disc-uss, what are your thoughts on this?

[Zendaya] We are described as a young group speaking on black culture and the social issues, stigmas and injustices relating to it but we are not only for people of colour we also touch on feminism and lgbt issues and aim to educate and inform people of all races and cultures more than anything.

The image you have creat-ed for yourselves revolves around the idea of self love and empowerment, how im-portant do you feel this is?

[Yara] We feel this is hugely important, it is what our group was built upon. Our aims as a group are to help our com-munity move forward. We feel a perfect place to start is by educating black girls and women to understand that they are beautiful regardless of how dark or light their skin is re-gardless of what society says.[Amandla] That their features look as good on them as they

The names of the four young black girls who are making their name known. Amandla Stenberg, Zendaya Coleman, Willow Smith and Yara Shahidi are tal-ented singers, dancers and actors who in their spare time have come to-gether to create an activist group taking social media by storm. Educat-ing people on matters relating to black lives to why The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is one of the best albums of all time.

How did this all start?

[Amandla] Individually we all had had a growing interest in our culture and the issues re-lating to it and like many others we wanted to find more people with similar interests. With us all being in the same industry pretty much we all knew of each other. Early last year we were all invited to the Black Girls Rock award show where we were all awarded for shar-ing our thoughts on the issues our community has faced as black people. From there we kind of realised the potential and impact we could have if

we could have if we shared our views together.

The group does not have an official name, was this pur-posely done?

[Yara] Kind of. We were so eager to join together a name was never really on our mind and even now is not really something we stress about. We feel as though not having a name for our group means we are still acknowledged for what we do individually and not solely recognised for what we do together. [Amandla] But people have

kind of come up with their own name for us anyway[Willow] Yeah ‘woke gurls’ is what we always get referred to as.

Do you feel as though age effects the way the industry and media sees you?

[Zendaya] I think as artists we are not impacted that heavily by our age because people of all ages watch our shows, movies and listen to our songs but by when it comes to us asa group we are. We obviously get a bigger response from people our age but our

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