{"id":3444,"date":"2015-09-21T14:42:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T21:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=3444"},"modified":"2015-09-21T14:42:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T21:42:40","slug":"emmys-women-of-color-and-the-wonderful-awesomely-luvvie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/21\/emmys-women-of-color-and-the-wonderful-awesomely-luvvie\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmys,  Women of Color and the Wonderful Awesomely Luvvie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Es7vr8RAGEo\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Listening to Viola Davis last night and reading responses from so many of my friends was inspiring, but hardly surprising. <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-En\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;ve written often<\/a> about the gift, through the Internet,\u00a0of access to the ideas\u00a0of women of color their\u00a0perspectives on America and race.<\/p>\n<p>But last night and this morning, it was as if it was brand\u00a0new, with this post from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awesomelyluvvie.com\/2015\/09\/regina-uzo-viola-black-2015-emmy-awards.html\" target=\"_blank\">AwesomelyLuvvie<\/a> saying it all. The depth of joy and pride wasn&#8217;t surprising, of course. It was just so wonderful and passionate. I remembered all the &#8220;first women&#8221; of the 70&#8217;s and 80&#8217;s: astronauts and VP Candidates, fire fighters and West Point grads, Supreme Court justices, rabbis, and orchestra conductors, \u00a0and could only imagine how much bigger this must feel &#8211; especially since Davis&#8217; speech was so phenomenal.<\/p>\n<p>So hats off Luvvie! \u00a0And hats off to Viola Davis and her sisters, those who won, those who didn&#8217;t and the fierce women who supported them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to Viola Davis last night and reading responses from so many of my friends was inspiring, but hardly surprising. I&#8217;ve written often about the gift, through the Internet,\u00a0of access to the ideas\u00a0of women of color their\u00a0perspectives on America and race. But last night and this morning, it was as if it was brand\u00a0new, with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/21\/emmys-women-of-color-and-the-wonderful-awesomely-luvvie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Emmys,  Women of Color and the Wonderful Awesomely Luvvie<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,27,28,97,29],"tags":[3068,3433,3434,1196,3435,262,261,3436,808],"class_list":["post-3444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-current-affairs","category-film","category-television","category-women","tag-awesomely-luvvie","tag-emmy","tag-emmys","tag-race","tag-taraji-p-henson","tag-television-2","tag-tv","tag-uzo-aduba","tag-viola-davis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-Ty","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3444"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3448,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions\/3448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}