Zendaya grew up in the same Oakland home as her dad, but it was hardly the same Oakland, Calif. The only child of a white mother and black father — both of whom were teachers — Zendaya told Vogue the Oakland she was raised in was full of "free-spirited, forward-moving" millennials. Her dad, Kazembe Ajamu Coleman, on the other hand, grew up during the civil rights movement in the same neighborhood as some of the original members of the Black Panthers Party. Apparently the revolutionary organization held meetings in his family's basement. "My aunties were Black Panthers," Zendaya said. "Afros, the whole nine."

Despite the difference in eras, Coleman, who has four children from a previous marriage, believes Zendaya, who attended the private school where he taught, is in touch with her roots. "Because I lived it, and her brothers and sisters experienced it, she knows it exists," Coleman told Vogue. "She knows she's reaping the benefits from those who paved the way for her."