{"id":43207,"date":"2017-06-27T01:14:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T01:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=43207"},"modified":"2017-06-27T01:14:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T01:14:58","slug":"yara-shahidi-honors-tamir-rice-beautiful-bet-award-acceptance-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=43207","title":{"rendered":"Yara Shahidi Honors Tamir Rice In Beautiful BET Award Acceptance Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(38, 40, 42); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;' data-reactid=\"22\">Yara Shahidi<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>won the YoungStars Award at the 2017 BET Awards on Sunday night and delivered a speech that showed exactly why she was so deserving of the honor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(38, 40, 42); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;' data-reactid=\"23\">The 17-year-old \u201cBlack-ish\u201d star expressed gratitude for her peer group, fans and family before taking a moment to acknowledge the late<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>Tamir Rice, who would have turned 15 years old on Sunday. Rice, who was killed in 2015 during a fatal police encounter in Cleveland, is one of many young black men who have died in police shootings. Shahidi recognized him onstage before thousands of audience members and viewers at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(38, 40, 42); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;' data-reactid=\"24\">\u201cToday is Tamir Rice\u2019s birthday, and so amidst this celebration, I\u2019d love to honor his life,\u201d Shahidi said. She also acknowledged BET \u201cfor celebrating our culture so beautifully when it isn\u2019t celebrated everywhere else as it should be.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(38, 40, 42); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;' data-reactid=\"25\">Shahidi, who is<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>heading to Harvard University next fall, has been<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>outspoken about the injustices<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>black people face and has consistently used her voice and platform to raise awareness around police brutality and racism in America.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(38, 40, 42); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;' data-reactid=\"25\"><div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post1\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(38, 40, 42); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;' data-reactid=\"26\">\u201cThank you for supporting blackness and our contributions to society,\u201d she said to the crowd at the BET Awards. \u201cThis is so appreciated and so necessary for my generation to see.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(38, 40, 42); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;' data-reactid=\"27\">Watch her full acceptance speech above.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1em; 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