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Historic Talent Earns a Historic Distinction
The triple crown
for actress Viola
Davis
M Arc h. M oriAl
Acting’s
triple
crown – Oscar, Emmy
and Tony – has been
won by only 23 people
in history. Now, the
first African-Ameri-
can has achieved that feat: Viola
Davis.
It seems fitting that Davis’ his-
tory-making honor occurred di-
rectly at the crossroads of Black
History Month and Women’s His-
tory Month, for she made history
as a black woman in more than one
way: She also is the most-nomi-
nated black actress in Oscar histo-
ry, with three nominations.
In addition to her role in Fenc-
es, for which she won, she earned
nominations for The Help in 2012
and Doubt in 2009. She was nomi-
nated twice for an Emmy, winning
in 2015 for her role in How To Get
Away With Murder. She earned
three Tony nominations, winning
for King Hedley II in 2001 and
Fences in 2010. She’s the first
black actress to win five Screen
Actors Guild awards. She had also
won three Drama Desk Awards, a
by
BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe,
and three Critics’ Choice Awards,
among others.
When she was honored with a
star on the Hollywood Walk
of Fame earlier this year,
Davis marveled, “I can’t be-
lieve my life.” Indeed, her
own story is worthy of the
Hollywood treatment. She
was raised in poverty by a
mother who was maid and
needs as a child of abject poverty.
Coming from a background where
I was first generation going to
school, I had enormous challeng-
es that needed to be met that were
much deeper than academia.”
Upward Bound, a summer pro-
gram where high school students
take college prep classes and earn
work experience at a college cam-
pus for six weeks, opened doors
that eventually led to the Juilliard
Upward Bound, a summer program
where high school students take college
prep classes and earn work experience at
a college campus for six weeks, opened
doors that eventually led to the Juilliard
School, one of the nation’s leading
performing arts programs.
factory worker. She told the New
York Times she stole food from
the grocery store and garbage cans
and wore the plastic clips from
bread bags in her braids.
Davis credits a federal anti-pov-
erty program, Upward Bound,
with saving her life. She told Es-
sence magazine, “They kind of
picked up where public school left
off because I had such enormous
School, one of the nation’s leading
performing arts programs.
Her success has not shielded
her from challenges that she has
said result from being “a woman
of color, of a certain age, and a
certain hue.”
Her 2015 Emmy win estab-
lished her as a role model when
she used her acceptance speech to
make a welcome statement about
diversity in the entertainment in-
dustry: “The only thing that sep-
arates women of color from any-
one else is opportunity,” she said.
“You cannot win an Emmy for
roles that are simply not there.”
She was the first black woman
to win the award for Best Lead
Actress in a Drama. Only one oth-
er black actress has won an acting
Emmy: Isabel Sanford, who won
for Best Lead Actress in a Come-
dy in 1981.
Davis’ exemplarity extends be-
yond her stellar talent and bold
outspokenness. She’s a benefactor
for the Rhode Island city where
she was raised, Central Falls. Her
philanthropic projects include the
city’s Adams Memorial Library,
the Central Falls High School
chess team and drama club, and
the Segue Institute for Learning,
a charter school. She’s also the
spokeswoman for the Hunger Is
campaign, to eradicate childhood
hunger.
We at the National Urban
League consider Viola Davis a
true woman of power; we congrat-
ulate her on her historic achieve-
ments and her epic journey and
are grateful for her generous spirit
and sense of community.
Marc H. Morial is president
and chief executive officer of the
National Urban League.