The Queen Takes Her Crown. On September 12, 2022, Sheryl Lee Ralph became only the second African-American woman to receive a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. For her Of The ESSENCE cover, she sat down for an interview with the first Black woman to achieve this accomplishment, the one and only @jackeeharry. "I always knew that there would be younger people behind me, and I always knew in my mind that I would have children. And I wanted to have the kind