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Uzo Aduba's character, Shirley Chisholm, has inspired the actress to «represent the voiceless.» While acceptingher Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie on Sunday night, Aduba wore a shirt with Breonna Taylor's name on it.

She told ET's Kevin Frazier that raising awareness for Taylor's case is something Chisholm would have done. «I had the great fortune of working on a show like, playing a woman who made it her life's work to represent the voiceless and take up space for people who often go missing in the story, whose voices don't get to be heard,» Aduba said of Chisholm, who was the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress.

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