Celeb News: History made: 4 black actors win all 4 musical acting Tony's

MikeyDuff1D

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The four actors helped make history as this is the first year that black actors won all four of the musical acting awards!
Cynthia won her award for her work in The Color Purple while Daveed, Leslie, and Renee all star in the musical Hamilton. In addition, Hamilton won the award for Best Musical while The Color Purple won Best Revival of a Musical

Source: Black Actors Win All Four Musical Acting Tony Awards in 2016 Cynthia Erivo, Daveed Diggs, Leslie Odom Jr, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Tony Awards http://www.justjared.com/2016/06/13/...ckback=tsmclip

Atlas

when will the grammys

QueenBLadyG

And they all earned it! Well deserved wins!

Dark XXX

#BlackExcellence

NE.

#BlackExcellence

Rumbler

artpop

When the roles are there, people shine. Such deserving winners.

Terrielle

Congrats

BlooRiverAnimal

DWG

That is awesome.

And that Cynthia woman can sing!

Jotham

It's shocking how this is the first time this has happened. Congrats to all of them!

cloudinthesky

And each one of them deserved it 150%. None of yall racist mfs better even TRY it in this thread today

NewRihannaStan

Slayage

B'Day

Black excellence!

Kim Kardashian

I loved the woman in the yellow dress in other stuff i've seen her in.
If she performed as well as usual in the play she definitely deserved it.

MrLovett

They're all excellent and completely deserved their awards. Cynthia is my Queen and makes me proud of be British.

Legacy

Congratulations

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PrinceLightning

Congratulations to each of them!!!

They should give the awards to the people that truly deserve them, no matter their race or color or other factors of this kind. #HumanExcellence #TalentMatters

Pill

fridayteenage

Good for them, even if I'm a bit disappointed that all the acting categories in Tony history have yielded fewer Asian winners than that.