7 Ways the 2017 Emmys Made History

For perspective, the Television Academy has been handing out Emmys for 69 years, and it took until 2017 for a woman of color to win an Emmy for comedy writing. Waithe became the first when she won, alongside her co-writer Aziz Ansari, for the Master of None episode "Thanksgiving." The episode is based on Waithe's own experiences of coming out as a lesbian to her family, and during her speech she urged her LGBTQIA family to "go out there and conquer the world."