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The 2023 Emmy Awards were its most diverse yet! The Emmys celebrated its 75th anniversary on Monday night after being pushed 4 months due to the dual writers and actors strikes. Appropriately falling on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the show handed out five of the 12 acting Emmys during the telecast to performers of color.

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00:00Thank you. And you know who I want to thank? I want to thank me.

00:04The 2023 Emmy Awards were its most diverse yet. The Emmy celebrated its 75th anniversary on Monday

00:11night after being pushed four months due to the dual writers and actor strikes.

00:15Appropriately falling on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the show handed out five of the 12

00:20acting Emmys during the telecast to performers of color. The show made history with its first

00:25two awards of the night, with wins for the Bears' Iowa Debris and Abbott Elementary's

00:29Quinta Brunson, marking the first time that the supporting and lead comedy actress Emmys

00:34both went to Black women in the same year. In addition, Brunson is only the second Black

00:38woman ever to win for lead actress in a comedy series after the Jeffersons Isabel Sanford did

00:44in 1981. Thank you so much. Just, I don't even know why I'm so emotional. I think like the Carol

00:50Burnett of it all. Niecy Nash Betts was the third Black actress to win an Emmy on Monday night in

00:56Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series. I accept this award on behalf of every Black and

01:03Brown woman who has gone unheard yet over-policed. It was also a historic night for the AAPI community.

01:10Beef's near-sweep in the Limited Series races meant Emmys for its lead performers, Stephen

01:15Young and Ali Wong. Wong is the first Asian woman ever to earn an Emmy for a lead role.

01:20To my beautiful daughters, Mari and Nikki, you are my everything and thank you for inspiring me.

01:27In non-acting categories, RuPaul's Drag Race host RuPaul extended his record for most decorated

01:33person of color in Emmys history with 15 and counting. And Trevor Noah became the first person

01:38from the global majority to front an Emmy-winning talk show.

01:41For more on everything from the Emmys, head to THR.com. And for the latest entertainment news

01:50and updates, keep watching The Hollywood Reporter News.

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