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Emmys 2020: Black Performers See Rise in Noms but Overall the Ballot is Far From Truly Inclusive

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Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVThere’s a disparity among nominees of color on the Emmy ballot this year, which can be traced to a larger disconnect within the industry, and society at large.The Television Academy nominated a record number of Black performers (34.3% of the 102, including double nominations for singular performers Sterling K.

Brown, Giancarlo Esposito and Maya Rudolph). But other non-white performers, including Latinx and API, only made up 5.88% of nominees combined.

Behind the scenes, the Television Academy only nominated 12.5% people of color in the narrative writing categories and 14.2% in the directing categories, and when it came to series nominations, only one came from a person of color in the showrunner.

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