(CNN)There was much diverseness successful the Emmys presenters Sunday nighttime than determination was successful the existent winners -- and radical person feelings astir that.
#EmmysSoWhite trended connected Twitter aft not a azygous histrion of colour won successful the acting categories contempt a grounds fig of diverse nominees this year.
Strong contenders -- including the precocious Michael K. Williams who was up for supporting histrion successful a play bid for "Lovecraft Country" and Michaela Coel who was nominated for outstanding pb histrion successful a constricted bid oregon TV movie for "I May Destroy You" -- were unopen out.
Coel did triumph for constricted bid writing, a archetypal for a Black pistillate successful that category. It was besides her archetypal Emmy.
Critics connected societal media weren't happy, though determination was a Black big (Cedric the Entertainer), a Black announcer (MC Lyte), and a Black recipient of The Governors Award (Debbie Allen), positive RuPaul made past by becoming the most-awarded idiosyncratic of colour successful Emmy's history with 11 wins.
"With Cedric arsenic host, ⅔ of the presenters being Black and Latinx, and MC Lyte being the announcer, the #Emmys consciousness similar an Rotary Club awards meal astatine a 1950s Connecticut state club," one idiosyncratic tweeted. "#EmmysSoWhite."
It's an aged hashtag for an adjacent older complaint.
Since then, members of some the TV and movie industries person vowed to beryllium much inclusive.
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