Black Women Won Big At The Emmys — But It’s Embarrassing Award Shows Are Still “Making History”

by KATHLEEN NEWMAN-BREMANG via https://www.refinery29.com/

The 75th Primetime Emmy Awards was a genuinely fun, surprisingly sincere celebration of television. You could tell that the production team behind the show (the first all-Black team to helm the Emmys) knows and loves TV as much as the audience that stayed up on a holiday Monday to watch an awards show about television. The 2023 Emmys mined 75 years of the medium it celebrates to bring us moments reuniting the casts of classic shows like Martin, Cheers, Grey’s Anatomy, Ally McBeal, and It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, just to name a few. I’m a nostalgia-obsessed millennial, so I really enjoyed these reunions, almost as much as I enjoyed watching multiple (!!!) Black women win their respective categories last night. It was a historic evening, not just for Ayo Edebiri, Quinta Brunson, and Niecy Nash-Betts, but for other winners of color who became firsts (like Ali Wong and Trevor Noah). Their wins were all deserved. Their wins should be celebrated. And their wins being well-placed exceptions in the Television Academy’s 75-year history of giving out awards should also be embarrassing…

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