Zahara Jolie-Pitt, the daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, is formally enrolling at Spelman College in Georgia, the United States.
The Academy Award-winning actress introduced Sunday (July 31) that her daughter will attend the historically Black liberal-arts faculty for girls in Atlanta. Jolie shared the information through Instagram, posting a photograph of Zahara and her mates of their faculty gear.
“Zahara along with her Spelman sisters!” Jolie wrote. “Congratulations to all new college students beginning this yr. A really particular place and an honor to have a member of the family as a brand new Spelman lady.”
Jolie-Pitt joins an extended listing of notable Black girls who’ve attended Spelman. Previous college students have included Alice Walker – writer of the Pulitzer Prize-winning e book The Color Purple – and actresses Cassi Davis, Keshia Knight Pulliam and the late Esther Rolle, amongst others.
Jolie adopted Zahara as a five-month-old orphan in Ethiopia. Jolie and then-boyfriend Pitt traveled to the African nation in 2005 to full the adoption, and Pitt legally adopted Zahara and older brother Maddox the following yr.
The former couple have 4 different youngsters: Shiloh, Pax and twins Knox and Vivienne.
At the top of final yr, Jolie and her daughter travelled to Washington, D.C., to meet with advocates and attorneys in an effort to strengthen protections for all teams within the Violence Against Women Act.
“Honored to go to Washington, DC, with Zahara, working with advocates and lawmakers to modernize and strengthen the #ViolenceAgainstWomenAct to embrace protections for youngsters’s well being and security, communities of shade, tribes, LGBTQ survivors, rural areas, and all survivors,” Jolie wrote on the time.
“We want reforms together with judicial coaching, trauma-informed courtroom processes that decrease the danger of hurt to youngsters, grant applications for expertise to detect bruising throughout all pores and skin tones and create non-biased forensic proof assortment, and protections for probably the most susceptible.”
The Violence Against Women Act was reauthorised in March 2022. It elevated companies and assist for survivors of violence and expanded prison jurisdiction for perpetrators. – Los Angeles Times/Tribune News Service
