Super Soul Special: Amandla Stenberg: My Authenticity is my Activism Image

Super Soul Special: Amandla Stenberg: My Authenticity is my Activism

10 July 2024 - 19 mins
Podcast Series Oprah's Super Soul

Original Air Date: May 29, 2019

In a live appearance at UCLA’s Royce Hall, actress, social media disrupter and feminist Amandla Stenberg talks about the importance of vulnerability and finding strength in your identity. She shares her journey of becoming comfortable with her authentic self and loving who she was born to be. Amandla, who portrayed Rue in The Hunger Games, Madeline in Everything, Everything and Starr in The Hate U Give was declared "one of the most incendiary voices of her generation" by Dazed magazine. The Ms. Foundation for Women also named Amandla the Feminist Celebrity of the Year in 2015.

 

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