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Tiffany Haddish - Tiffany Haddish won the 2018 Emmy Award for the Best Guest Actress: Comedy for her role in Saturday Night Live.  (Photo: NICK AGRO/AFP/Getty Images)

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Samira Wiley - Samira Wiley's role in The Handmaid's Tale blessed her the opportunity of being nominated for Best Guest Actress: Drama in both 2017 and 2018. Wiley won the award in 2018, granting Samira her first Emmy award. (Photo: Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic)

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Ron Cephas Jones - Ron Cephas Jones was the recipient of the 2018 Emmy Award for Best Guest Actor: Drama for his role in This Is Us. (Photo: Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic)

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RuPaul - RuPaul won last year's Emmy Award for Outstanding Host For a Reality Show or Competition Program and he is nominated for this award again for the 2019 Emmy Awards.  (Photo: Dan MacMedan/Getty Images)

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Katt Williams - Katt Williams received the 2018 Emmy Award for Best Guest Actor: Comedy for his appearances in Atlanta.   (Photo: Donato Sardella/Getty Images for Netflix)

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Thandie Newton - Thandie Newton won the 2018 Outstanding Support Actress Emmy Award for her role as "Maeve" in HBO series, Westworld. (Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage)

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Regina King - Regina King has been nominated for four Emmy's and has won 3 of them. Her most recent was the 2018 Award for Outstanding Lead Actress for a limited series or movie, Seven Seconds. (Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage)

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Donald Glover - Donald Glover made history at the Emmys. He became the first African-American to win best directing in a comedy series for Atlanta. He also won for best actor in a comedy series for Atlanta. Congrats to Gambino!(Photo: John Shearer/WireImage) 

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Lena Waithe - In 2017, writer Lena Waithe became the first African-American to win for comedy writing, which was for Master of None. Epic!(Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage) 

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Courtney B. Vance - The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story won big at the 2016 Emmys, including Courtney B. Vance, who played Johnnie Cochran.

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Sterling K. Brown - In 2016, Sterling K. Brown won for playing Christopher Darden in The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story. In 2017, he also won for Lead Actor in a Drama series for his role in This Is Us.

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Viola Davis - Viola Davis made history in 2015 when she became the first African-American woman to win the trophy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama. If her remarkable win wasn't enough, the actress took the opportunity during her acceptance speech to shed light on the plight women of color endure in Hollywood.(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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Uzo Aduba -  Orange Is the New Black's Uzo Aduba took home the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2015. This was Aduba's second Emmy. She won her first in 2014 for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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Regina King - Regina King took home her very first Emmy in 2015 after being nominated for the first time in the category for Outstanding Supprting Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie. She landed a same Emmy in the same category in 2016! She was recognized for her role in the ABC series American Crime.(Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

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Halle Berry - A groundbreaker on many levels, Halle Berry took home Best Lead Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie in 2000 for her portrayal of Dorothy Dandridge in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. (Photo: LUCY NICHOLSON/AFP/Getty Images)

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Isabel Sanford - Sanford was nominated seven times for Best Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Weezy in The Jeffersons, but only won once, in 1981. There were only three other Black women ever nominated in this category: Diahann Carroll, Nell Carter and Phylicia Rashad.  (Photo: Ron Galella/WireImage)

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Cicely Tyson - Tyson nabbed two Primetime Emmys for her work in a pair of TV movies. She took Best Leading Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and a Best Supporting Actress award in the same category for The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All.  (Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

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Lynn Whitfield - Do we spot a trend? Like Halle Berry and Cicely Tyson, Whitfield also won a 1991 Emmy for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Movie, and for a biopic role, in The Josephine Baker Story. (Photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc)

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Alfre Woodard - After three nearly consecutive nominations in the same category, Woodard finally had her name called for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Movie in 1997 for Miss Evers' Boys. She also won two Emmys for Best Guest Actress in a Series: first in 1987 for L.A. Law and again in 2003 for The Practice.  (Photo: SGranitz/WireImage)

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S. Epatha Merkerson - The fifth and final Black actress to have won a Best Actress in a Miniseries or Movie award, for now at least, is Merkerson, who took home the prize for her role as boarding house lady Rachel "Nanny" Crosby in Lackawanna Blues. (Photo: M. Caulfield/WireImage)

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Roscoe Lee Browne - This baritone-voiced actor won a Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Emmy for his role as Professor Foster in The Cosby Show in 1986.  (Photo: Ron Galella/Getty Images)

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Olivia Cole -  In 1977, Roots made television history by winning nine Emmy Awards. Oliva Cole became the first African-American actress to win an Emmy award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Television Movie for her unforgettable performance as Kizzy.(Photo: CBS/Getty Images)

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Louis Gossett, Jr.  - This five-time Emmy nominee had beginner's luck the first time at bat, winning an award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 1977 for his work on Roots. Though he was nominated four more times, he didn't win again.  (Photo: Warner Brothers Television/Getty Images)

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James Earl Jones - Known for a golden voice, the Mississippi native won three Emmys, his most famous being two wins in 1991 for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for Gabriel's Fire and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Heat Wave.  (Photo: Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)

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Laurence Fishburne - This Oscar-nominated actor took home his first and only Emmy for TriBeCa, a 1993 drama series set in the artsy Manhattan neighborhood. Fishburne was awarded Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.  (Photo: SGranitz/WireImage)

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Charles Dutton - The House star won two back-to-back Emmys (out of three back-to-back nominations) in the Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series category, first in 2002 for The Practice and again in 2003 for Without a Trace.  (Photo: Albert L. Ortega/WireImage)

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Loretta Devine - This prolific film and television actress won an Emmy last year for Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayal of Adele Webber, wife of surgery boss Dr. Richard Webber (played by James Pickens, Jr.) on Shonda Rhimes's hit drama Grey's Anatomy. (Photo: Noel Vasquez/Getty Images)

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Jackée Harry - She created one of the most memorable roles of 1980s television as stoop-lounging chatterbox Sandra Clark on 227, and in 1987 she was awarded a Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy. She is the first and only Black actress to win in this category.  (Photo: Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)

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Gail Fisher - This classically-trained actress was one of the first Black women to make a splash in television. She's best known as secretary Peggy Fair in detective drama Mannix, a role for which she won two Golden Globes and an Emmy in 1970 for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.  (Photo: Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

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Madge Sinclair - This Jamaican beauty, who didn't get into acting until she was in her 30s, had been nominated four times prior to winning an Emmy for detective drama Gabriel's Fire, in which she co-starred opposite James Earl Jones. (Photo: Getty Images)

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Ruby Dee - This American treasure, one of the most prolific television actresses from the 1940s until today, has won every award under the sun. She received her one and only Emmy for the 1991 television movie Decoration Day.  (Photo: Jim Smeal/WireImage)

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Bill Cosby - Bill Cosby never won an Emmy for The Cosby Show, but he is a five-time Emmy winner. He garnered three Emmys for playing Detective Alexander Scott in I Spy. Also, Mr. Cosby won for The Bill Cosby Special in 1968. In 2003, the television legend received the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award.  (Photo: Jack Smith/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

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Whitney Houston - The late, great Whitney Houston was such a talent that her performance of "Saving All My Love for You" at the 1986 Grammys earned her an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program. Whitney beat out Patti LaBelle and Stevie Wonder.  (Photo: Chris Haston/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

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Harry Belafonte - The King of Calypso was one of the few entertainers who could transcend the racial tension of the 1960s, and in 1960 he was the first African-American to ever win an Emmy. He was awarded the prize for Best Variety Special for Tonight With Harry Belafonte. (Photo: CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)

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Sarah Vaughan - This New Jersey-born jazz singer, known as "The Divine One," was celebrated with an Emmy in 1981 for Individual Achievement – Special Class, recognizing her performance of Gershwin with the New Jersey symphony which was broadcast on PBS. (Photo: Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)

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Esther Rolle - Her no-nonsense character Florida Evans stole the show in two sitcoms, Maude and Good Times, but it was her dramatic turn as a World War II housekeeper in the TV movie Summer of My German Soldier that earned her an Emmy in 1979. (Photo: Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)

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Jeffrey Wright - This prolific actor, who has an impressive résumé on the stage, big screen and small screen, scored an Emmy for his breakthrough role in the HBO miniseries Angels in America. The Mike Nichols-directed miniseries won a total of 11 awards in nearly every major category. (Photo: Bob Riha Jr/WireImage)

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Leontyne Price - Born in Mississippi before the Civil Rights movement was even a whisper, Price's talent transcended race and geography. The singer, who has been decorated with a number of Presidential Medals and 18 Grammy Awards, won her first and only Emmy Award in 1982 for her performance with the New York Philharmonic on Live From the Lincoln Center.(Photo: Ron Scherl/Redferns)

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Wayne Brady - The improv king rose to fame on Whose Line Is It Anyway? and won a 2003 Emmy for his work on the show, in the category of Best Individual Performance on a Variety, Musical or Comedy Series. He went on to star in his own variety series, The Wayne Brady Show, and host the reboot of classic game show Let's Make a Deal!. (Photo: Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage)

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Spike Lee - Spike Lee is overdue for an Academy Award, but he is a three-time Emmy winner. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts won three Emmys for Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming, Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming and Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking. (Photo: Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage)