It has been a cry for so many years to get more black celebrities on the Emmy Award nominee list.
2020 may be a year full of so many falls but there is one win for the famous black characters we enjoy on popular series.
The list of 2020 Emmy Award nominees was released and this brought the likes of Yvonne Orji to tears - who was nominated by the way-.
According to Variety, 34.3 percent of the acting nominees are Black. There are a total of 102 acting nominees across the categories.
Here is the list and I am sure you will be wowed learning some of your favorite actors are on the list.
Lupita Nyong'o for Serengeti
Viola Davis for How To Get Away With Murder
Kerry Washington for Little Fires Everywhere
Anthony Anderson for Black-ish
Issa Rae for Insecure
Yvonne Orji for Insecure
Tracee Ellis Ross for Black-ish
Andre Braugher for Brooklyn nine-nine
Sterling K. Brown for This Is Us
Zendaya for Euphoria
Thandie Newton for Westwood
Laverne Cox for Orange Is The News Black
Octavia Spencer- Self Made
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