Black Actors Won More Awards at This Year's Tonys Than in the Last 9 Years of the Oscars
In the same year as the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, history had its eyes on the 70th annual Tony Awards. Between the casts of Hamilton and The Color Purple, black performers swept the musical theater categories, with Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Leslie Odom, Jr., and Cynthia Erivo taking the awards for ... More »