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Tracee Ellis Ross Closes 30 Year Gap & Makes History For Black Women With ‘Blackish’ Emmy Nomination!

<p>It appears as though actress&comma; Tracee Ellis Ross is continuing with her &num;blackgirlmagic slay&excl;&excl; She visited Good Morning America Thursday&comma; where she spoke about her historic Emmy nomination&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you didn&&num;8217&semi;t know&comma; Tracee is the first black woman in 30 years to receive an Emmy nomination for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series&excl; Imagine how epic it will be if she wins&excl;&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking on the day that she received the news of her nomination&comma; she told GMA&comma; &&num;8220&semi;So I&&num;8217&semi;m sitting at home watching and it was hilarious&period; I screamed when Anthony&comma; when he said his name&comma; I was literally like a seal&period; And then&comma; when he got to my category&comma; I was like&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Are they going to go with the Ellis&comma; or the Ross&quest;&&num;8217&semi; And I was like&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Oh God&comma; the E&&num;8217&semi;s are done&excl;'&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Tracee then added&comma;  &&num;8220&semi;My name came up and I jumped up&comma; ran around my dining room table&comma; opened my front door&comma; went in my courtyard and was running around&period; I was like&comma; &&num;8216&semi;What am I doing&quest; I have nowhere to go&excl; Call somebody&excl;&&num;8217&semi; I left my body&period; I was so excited&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To celebrate&comma; the actress told GMA that the Johnson&&num;8217&semi;s &lpar;the show&&num;8217&semi;s fictional family&rpar; were heading to Disney World&excl; After spilling the beans to her mother&comma; Diana Ross&comma; the icon took out a full-page ad in the Hollywood Reporter in order to congratulate her&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Congratulations&comma; Tracee&excl;&excl; We hope you win&excl;&excl;<br &sol;>&NewLine;TSR STAFF&colon; Talia O&period; &commat;theclosetratchet on Instagram &amp&semi; &commat;tallyohhh on Twitter&excl;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Via&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;abcnews&period;go&period;com&sol;Entertainment&sol;tracee-ellis-ross-makes-history-1st-black-woman&sol;story&quest;id&equals;42107695">ABC News<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine; 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