https://celebrity.yahoo.com/video/zendaya-reveals-real-reason-she-180206520.html

Zendaya may only be 19 years old but she knows what she wants and goes for it. The actress covers the July issue of “Cosmopolitan,” and inside the mag she reveals that she made it crystal clear that she would only return to Disney (http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2016/06/02/zendaya-talks-disney-diversity-in-cosmo/85292514/) under one condition. "The only way I was going to come back to the Disney Channel was if I was in a position of more power,” she said. “One thing that is really important to me is diversity on the channel. It's hard as a young person of a different ethnicity or background to look

Zendaya returned to Disney Channel because she says it lacked diversity (http://www.justjaredjr.com/2017/12/21/zendaya-returned-to-disney-channel-because-of-the-lack-of-diversity/)
“The only reason I wanted to come back to the Disney Channel is because there was a lack of diversity at that time,” the K.C. Undercover star tells The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/movies/zendaya-the-greatest-showman.html). “There weren’t any leads or families of color, and I felt like that was something that needed to happen.”