2020 Grammy Nominee's Lupita Nyongo and Zendaya
2020 Grammy Nominee's Lupita Nyongo and Zendaya
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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.

Yvonne Orji and Issa Rae from Insecure
Yvonne Orji and Issa Rae from Insecure
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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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