Here’s to melanin magic dripping all award season long.
30 Black Folks We’re Rooting For At This Year’s Emmy Awards was originally published on globalgrind.com
1. Issa Rae
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for Insecure
2. Tracee Ellis Ross
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for Black-ish
3. John Legend
Jesus Christ Superstar nod
4. Sterling K. Brown
This Is Us & Brooklyn Nine-Nine nods
5. Tiffany Haddish
SNL
6. Katt Williams
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for Atlanta
7. Dave Chappelle
Equanimity
8. Anthony Anderson
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series for Black ish
9. Jeffrey Wright
Nominated for West World
10. Ru Paul
RuPaul’s Drag Race & RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked
11. Trevor Noah
The Daily Show With Trevor Noah
12. Samira Wiley
The Handmaid’s Tale
13. Regina King
Seven Seconds
14. Thandie Newton
Westworld
15. Donald Glover
Atlanta & Saturday Night Live
16. Chloe Arnold
The Late Late Show With James Corden
17. Zazie Beetz
Atlanta
18. Leslie Jones
Saturday Night Live
19. Tituss Burgess
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
20. Brian Tyree Henry
Atlanta
21. Kenan Thompson
Saturday Night Live
22. Letitia Wright
Black Museum (Black Mirror)
23. Viola Davis
HTGAWM/Scandal
24. Cicely Tyson
How to Get Away With Murder
25. Ron Cephas Jones
This Is Us
26. Maya Rudolph
The Good Place
27. Wanda Sykes
Blackish
28. W. Kamau Bell
United Shades of America With W. Kamau Bell
29. Brandon Victor Dixon
This Is Us
30. Adina Porter
American Horror Story: Cult