When accepting her Emmy for Best Actress in a Drama Series on Sunday night, How to Get Away with Murder's Viola Davis made a powerful speech about black women in Hollywood.
"In my mind, I see a line, and over that line I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can't seem to get there no how, I can't seem to get over that line," she said. "That was Harriet Tubman in the 1800s. Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there."
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