The 2024 Emmy Awards have been stuffed with emotional speeches, from Quinta Brunson tearfully thanking her household and Abbott Elementary solid to Jeremy Allen White shouting out his younger daughters, however one of many evening’s most memorable moments got here when Niecy Nash-Betts took the stage to simply accept the prize for greatest supporting actress in a restricted or anthology collection or film for her position in Netflix’s Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.

After being sweetly escorted to the stage by her spouse Jessica Betts, Nash-Betts informed the viewers: “I settle for this award in honor of each Black and Brown lady who has gone unheard but overpoliced, like Glenda Cleveland, like Sandra Bland, like Breonna Taylor. As an artist, my job is to talk reality to energy, and I’ll do it till the day I die. Mama, I gained!” 

The room promptly erupted into applause on the conclusion of Nash-Betts’s speech, which boldly drew consideration to the all-too-real problems with systemic racism and misogynoir in every thing from the legal justice system to Hollywood.

This 12 months’s Emmys mark Nash-Betts’s first win, though she’s been nominated a complete of 5 instances (most regularly for her position as nurse Didi Ortley on the HBO collection Getting On). Hopefully, tonight represents the beginning of Nash-Betts—and each different Black ladies whose contributions to TV and movie have so typically been unacknowledged—getting their well-deserved flowers.