18 years and Many seasons later, #TheBachelor casts first black male lead!

Well #BlackLivesMatter did that!

With the protests going on worldwide for inclusion of people of colour, the bachelor has finally cast it's first ever black make lead!

28 year old Matt James has been cast as the Star who is going to seek to find love,travel the world with his "girls" and of course hand out roses..

It's so surreal that in the many years the bachelor has been on there's never been a black lead..well except Racheal Lindsay..

Check out the announcement on GMA below...