Emmys So White Part 2: No Actors of Color Win Major Acting Prizes on TV’s Biggest Night

By Clayton Davis

Clayton Davis

Chief Awards Editor

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Sequels can be just as bad as their predecessors, and we’re in the midst of another unfortunate one.

On Monday at the 78th Emmy Awards, in the lead and supporting races for drama and comedy, in addition to lead actor and actress in a limited series, all 10 actors who crossed the stage came from outside an underrepresented community. The other two, supporting actor and actress in a limited series, which were handed out a week earlier at the Creative Arts ceremonies, shifted off the main show this year in a reshuffling of five categories that drew Hollywood’s guilds’ ire, but did not change the math.

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