Yara Shahidi and Keri Shahidi to Develop Cole Brown’s Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World
Yara Shahidi and her mom, Keri Shahidi are developing a new series. The duo’s production company, 7th Sun Productions, is developing Cole Brown’s book Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World, for TV.
In the book, “Cole has heard it all before—token, bougie, oreo—the things we call the kids like him. Black kids who grow up in white spaces, living at an intersection of race and class that many doubt exists. He needed to get far away from the preppy site of his upbringing before he could make sense of it all.
Through a series of personal anecdotes and interviews with his peers, Cole transports us to his adolescence and explores what it’s like to be young and in search of identity. He digs into the places where, in youth, a greyboy’s difference is most acutely felt: parenting, police brutality, depression, and dating, to name a few.”
Congrats the power mother/daughter team!