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The 47th Annual NAACP Image Awards are here and a slew of our favorite writers, music artists, actors and directors are being celebrated all across Black entertainment. Here’s the long list of nominees that are up for awards this year.
Don’t forget to tune in on Feb. 5 on TV One at 8/7 C for the Red Carpet and 9/8 C for the awards show!
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You Are Wonderfully Made: 12 Life-Changing Principles for Teen Girls to Embrace, Gwen Richardson (Author), Sylvia Daye Richardson (Author), (Cushcity Communications)
Granddaddy’s Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box, Michael S. Bandy (Author), Eric Stein (Author), James E. Ransome (Illustrator), (Candlewick Press)
10. Outstanding Literary Work (Children)
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Gordon Parks How the Photographer Captured Black and White America, Carole Boston Weatherford (Author), Jamey Christoph (Illustrator), (Albert Whitman & Company)
11. Outstanding Literary Work (Children)
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Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts, Nikki Grimes (Author), Michele Wood (Illustrator), (Orchard Books / Scholastic)
12. Outstanding Literary Work (Poetry)
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Wild Hundreds, Nate Marshall (University of Pittsburgh Press)
13. Outstanding Literary Work (Poetry)
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Redbone, Mahogany L. Browne (Willow Books)
14. Outstanding Literary Work (Poetry)
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Reconnaissance, Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
15. Outstanding Literary Work (Poetry)
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How to Be Drawn, Terrance Hayes (Penguin Books / Penguin Random House)
16. Outstanding Literary Work (Poetry)
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Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Ross Gay (University of Pittsburgh Press)
17. Outstanding Literary Work (Instructional)
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Soul Food Love: Healthy Recipes Inspired by One Hundred Years of Cooking in a Black Family, Alice Randall (Author), Caroline Randall Williams (Author), (Clarkson Potter)
18. Outstanding Literary Work (Instructional)
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Keep Calm … It’s Just Real Estate: Your No-Stress Guide to Buying a Home, Egypt Sherrod (Perseus/Running Press)
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Free Your Mind: An African-American Guide to Meditation and Freedom, Cortez R. Rainey (CreateSpace)
21. Outstanding Literary Work (Instructional)
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Big Words to Little Me: Tips and Advice for the Younger Self, Sakina Ibrahim (Author), Jessie Lee (With), (Createspace (Self published))
22. Outstanding Literary Work (Biography/ Auto-Biography)
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Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person, Shonda Rhimes (Simon & Schuster)
23. Outstanding Literary Work (Biography/ Auto-Biography)
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Power Forward: My Presidential Education, Reggie Love (Simon & Schuster)
24. Outstanding Literary Work (Biography/ Auto-Biography)
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One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York, Arthur Browne (Beacon Press)
25. Outstanding Literary Work (Biography/ Auto-Biography)
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Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (Spiegel & Grau)
26. Outstanding Literary Work (Biography/ Auto-Biography)
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After the Dance: My Life With Marvin Gaye, Jan Gaye (Author), David Ritz (With), (HarperCollins/Amistad)
27. Outstanding Literary Work (Debut Author)
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The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, A Play and the City That Could Not Be Broken, Wendell Pierce (Author), Rod Dreher (Author), (Riverhead Books)
28. Outstanding Literary Work (Debut Author)
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The Turner House, Angela Flournoy (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
29. Outstanding Literary Work (Debut Author)
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The Star Side of Bird Hill, Naomi Jackson (Penguin Press)
30. Outstanding Literary Work (Debut Author)
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The Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma (Little, Brown & Company)
31. Outstanding Literary Work (Debut Author)
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Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (Spiegel & Grau)
32. Outstanding Literary Work (Non-Fiction)
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The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander (Grand Central Publishing)
33. Outstanding Literary Work (Non-Fiction)
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Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga, Pamela Newkirk (HarperCollins/Amistad)
34. Outstanding Literary Work (Non-Fiction)
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SHOWDOWN: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America, Wil Haygood (Alfred A. Knopf)
35. Outstanding Literary Work (Non-Fiction)
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Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, Jill Leovy (Spiegel & Grau)
36. Outstanding Literary Work (Non-Fiction)
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50 Billion Dollar Boss: African American Women Sharing Stories of Success in Entrepreneurship and Leadership, Kathey Porter (Author), Andrea Hoffman (Author), (Palgrave Macmillan)
37. Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction)
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Under the Udala Trees, Chinelo Okparanta (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
38. Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction)
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Stand Your Ground, Victoria Christopher Murrary (Touchstone)
39. Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction)
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Mama’s Boy, ReShonda Tate Billingsley (Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster)
40. Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction)
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Ghost Summer: Stories, Tananarive Due (Prime Books)
41. Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction)
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Driving the King, Ravi Howard (HarperCollins/Harper)
