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Will the Emmy’s Finally Make History This Year?

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Viola Davis and Taraji P. Henson are finally nominated but, will a black actress actually win this year?

Hollywood took a small step toward progress by nominating Empire’s Taraji P. Henson and How To Get Away With Murder star Viola Davis in the drama actress category.

If either of them should win, it would be the first time a black actress has one an Emmy for that category.

Viola Davis plays the cunning law professor Annalise Keating in the Shonda Rhimes thriller, ‘How to Get Away with Murder’. Davis said that the role has “healed” her and “shown a lot of little dark-skinned girls with curly hair a physical manifestation of themselves,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Kerry Washington was the first black actress to be nominated in the category in 18 years when she scored her first nomination in 2013.

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