CULTURE

Amandla Stenberg Is Coming to Terms With Being a Revolutionary

by Vanessa Lawrence

The Hunger Games actress and NYU student opens up about her viral short film “Don’t Cash Crop My Cornrows,” being a social justice warrior on Instagram, and why Rihanna is a role model.

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Amandla Stenberg wears J.W. Anderson 
top and skirt; Jennifer Fisher earring 
(right ear); her own hoop earrings and septum ring.

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Courtesy of Amandla Stenberg.

A young Stenberg, at a dance recital, 2003.

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Amandla Stenberg

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Courtesy of instagram.com/amandlastenberg.

Stenberg with Oprah Winfrey, at the taping of SuperSoul Sessions, in April.

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Photo courtesy Marc Jacobs.

Amandla Stenberg.

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Photo by Getty Images.

Amandla Stenberg in Moschino by Jeremy Scott at Black Girls Rock!, April 2016.

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Photo by Getty Images.

Amandla Stenberg.

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Photo by Getty Images.

Amandla Stenberg and Janelle Monáe.

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Photo by BFA.

Amandla Stenberg.

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Photo by Peter Schwab.

Amandla Stenberg.