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====Tasha Yvette Henderson====
Played by [[Essence Atkins]], the character of Tasha Yvette Henderson – who is generally referred to by her middle name – is the older sister of Marcus and T.J. and the only daughter of Floyd Henderson. She is in the [[eleventh grade]] in season one and graduates high school at the end of season three. Yvette is intelligent, is usually level-headed, is a women's rights activist and has a passion for art, including drama, photography and dancing. She is also the editor of the school newspaper, ''The Penguin'' (a position that is the partial basis of "Stop the Presses", in which T.J. decides to start his own newspaper – ''The Weekly Veritas'', which he abruptly switches from a [[Infotainment#Infotainment v. journalism|hard news]] to a [[Tabloid journalism|tabloid]] publication upon the advice of Marcus and Mo due to flagging sales – after he becomes dissatisfied with repeatedly assigned by Yvette to write [[puff piece]]s). Yvette sometimes finds it hard being the only girl in a family full of mostly men, as seen in the season two episode "Men Working Badly".

Episodes in which her character dates a fellow Piedmont High student feature Yvette sometimes overthinking the relationship, such as when she dated a dimwitted swimmer whom she had mainly a physical attraction to in the episode "Big Picture" or when high school senior Yvette dated a sophomore in the episode "T.A. or Not T.A." In the season one episode "The Code", it is revealed that she has a fake I.D. that says she is 28 years old. After being rejected from [[Princeton University]], Yvette planned to stay in Washington, D.C. to attend [[Georgetown University]] as the series ends. Although the character of Yvette is in her late teens, Essence Atkins (born on February 7, 1972, and therefore being in her mid-20s during the run of the series) is actually only ten years younger than John Marshall Jones, who plays her character's father Floyd.