Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hattie McDaniel arrived at her audition for the role of Gone With the Wind’s Mammy wearing a maid’s uniform. It wasn’t a costume — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Director and President of the Academy Museum Jacqueline Stewart and McDaniel's great-grandnephew Kevin John Goff take EW behind ...

Actress Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Academy Award on this day in history, Feb. 29, 1940. McDaniel won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as ...

The breakout star from Lifetime’s ’The Clark Sisters’ will play the first Black person to ever win an Oscar. American actress Hattie McDaniel (1895 – 1952) with her Academy Award of Merit for ...

Hattie McDaniel was a force in the entertainment industry and paved the way for many actresses today. In The Queen of Sugar Hill, author ReShonda Tate tells the story of the first Black person ever to ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — It was the first Oscar ever awarded to a Black actor: The plaque presented to actress Hattie McDaniel in 1940 for her iconic supporting role in the landmark 1939 film “Gone With the ...

Hattie McDaniel's Oscar went missing from Howard University decades ago. Howard celebrated McDaniel's legacy Sunday as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences replaced the missing plaque. For ...

At the Oscars ceremony in 1940, African-American actress Hattie McDaniel was seated at a segregated table on the far side of the room at the Ambassador Hotel. A great distance from the table where her ...

This week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that it will finally replace Hattie McDaniel’s long-missing Oscar. McDaniel made history when she became the first Black actor to ...

In a moment decades in the making, representatives from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Sunday night presented Howard University with a replacement Oscar for Hattie McDaniel’s 1940 ...

Hattie McDaniel proclaimed her Academy Award for playing Mammy in Gone With the Wind to be a “beacon” for her future. The first Black actor to win an Oscar, she remained the only woman to do so for 51 ...