MAKING HISTORY

Viola Davis became the first African-American to win for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, for her work in How to Get Away With Murder in 2015. “The only thing that separates women of color from anyone is opportunity,” she said at the podium. Isabel Sanford won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for The Jeffersons in 1981. She was the first black woman to receive that honor.