#NAACP Image Award Nominees

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👏🏾Come👏🏾Through,👏🏾Wise👏🏾Girl!

Leah Sava Jeffries

Killing it as Annabeth Chase on PERC🔱 JACKSON And THE OLYMPIANS.

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CONGRATULATIONS, AARON ! 🎉

Aaron is nominated for TWO NAACP Image Awards

Outstanding Character Voice–Over Performance – Motion Picture for Mufasa: The Lion King

Outstanding Actor in a Limited Television (Series, Special or Movie) for Rebel Ridge

Rebel Ridge receives TWO additional nominations, besides Aaron's:

Outstanding Limited Television (Series, Special or Movie)

Outstanding Stunt Ensemble (TV or Film)

Genius: MLK/X receives SEVEN nominations, including a DOUBLE NOMINATION

Outstanding Limited Television (Series, Special or Movie)

Outstanding Actor in a Limited Television (Series, Special or Movie) -- Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Martin Luther King Jr.

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Television (Series, Special or Movie) -- Ron Cephas Jones as Elijah Muhammad

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Television (Series, Special or Movie) -- Jayme Lawson as Betty Shabazz

Outstanding Soundtrack/Compilation Album

Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series -- Marta Cunningham for “Protect Us” & “Who We Are”

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2025 NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINATIONS

ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR NOMINEES

Cynthia Erivo

Keke Palmer

Kendrick Lamar

Kevin Hart

Shannon Sharpe

[wgc-productions]

Have y'all voted for Small Victories in the Outstanding Podcast- Scripted Series category?

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Harvey at the 54th NAACP Image Awards Nominees Luncheon.

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Small Victories - #BIPOCtober Day 7

A recently recovered drug addict tries to start her new lease on life, too bad life has it out for her. This drama follows Marisol through the ups and downs of her life.

Small Victories is a 2024 NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE for Outstanding Scripted Podcast. It's got 2 seasons out right now for you to enjoy!

Here's a review from the lovely Tal Minear to give you an idea about what to expect:

Small Victories will have you laughing just as much as it will have you yelling at the protagonist, Marisol. Her occasionally unwise decisions (putting it generously) and self-sabotage (putting it less generously) are sometimes too relatable, but that only serves to make her feel more real and make you more invested…..Fans of snappy writing, quick wits, Black Bisexual leads, hilarious moments, and/or just generally a good time will love Small Victories. -DiscoverPods, The Best Podcasts of 2022 (So Far)

Our friends at @wgc-productions definitely deserve the spotlight for this fantastic work. Give them and their work a follow! Main site in the replies.

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Leah Sava Jeffries at the 55th NAACP Image Awards Nominees Brunch.🖤🤍

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Our favorite way to spend a Saturday night? Celebrating Black Excellence 🤩

Sending congratulations to all of the nominees and winners of the 55th annual NAACP Image Awards!

[destinyc1020]

Zendaya didn't get a nom for the NAACP awards. Normally, I wouldn't care, but considering she was in two of the most talked about films last year, it seems so weird to me. Challengers was the first time she was the lead in a big hollywood movie, and Tashi is a black character who essentially was a femme fatale. Like I understand that sci-fi may not appeal to most ppl, but this is the only time I would justify them being biased for Z's sake.

It judt feels like because Z is "mainstream," she's not considered a part of "black hollywood," which is okay for it, but her success reflects well in the industry, no? Idk why this irrated me. I just wished they were more biased cause this may be the time for her to get more floqers cause Challengerswas a great movie. idk🤷🏾‍♀️

I'll admit, I was a tiny bit surprised that Zendaya was not on the nomination list for "Challengers" this year. But hey, I think it's just a very tiiight race this year.

Cynthia Erivo, Regina King, Lupita Nyong'o, Lashawna Lynch, etc all did great jobs in their roles, and those roles were quite poignant.

Zendaya did a great job in "Challengers" also, but they probably felt like they couldn't leave out the other actresses in their roles this year. 😬 And sad to say, but while I enjoyed Z in "Dune: Part 2", I don't feel that her performance was particularly nominee worthy for an award, or even a standout performance in that large group of cast members for that film. Jmho 🤷🏾‍♀️ I don't think it is because the film is Sci-fi.

But don't worry! I don't think it was a slight against Z at all! 😊 Zendaya has been nominated for several Naacp Image awards over the years. 😊 One year, she was nominated for two in one awards show!

Also, keep in mind that "Challengers" only won music at the Golden Globe awards last Sunday, so I'm not really sure yet how it's going to fare during the awards season this year as far as acting awards go. 🤔 Demi is going to be very hard to beat this season. I think she might even get nominated for an Oscar.

Anyway, Z has PLENTY of time to win more awards in the future. 😊 She already has 2 Emmys, a Golden Globe, and who knows? Maybe she might even get a SAG and an Oscar nod for "Challengers" this year! The awards season is NOT over! 😁

We will know about the SAG Nominations TOMORROW!! 🙌🏾

[callmebrycelee]

MAN CRUSH MONDAY

TYLER JAMES WILLIAMS

Tyler James Williams was born October 9, 1992 in Westchester County, New York. The 31-year-old is best known for his roles on Everybody Hates Chris, The Walking Dead, and Abbott Elementary. Tyler has also been featured on True Jackson, VP, Criminal Minds, Ballers, Dear White People, and House. He is a Golden Globe Award, NAACP Image Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award recipient and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series nominee. Tyler is 5 feet and 9 inches tall.

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An Actor with a Cause

Daniel Lebern “Danny” Glover is an African American actor, film director and political activist. Glover is well known for his roles as Detective Sergeant Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film series and Mr. Albert Johnson in The Color Purple. A versatile actor on screen, stage and television, Danny Glover has also become known for his community activism and philanthropic work. In March 1998 he was appointed a United Nations goodwill ambassador. For more than 30 years, Glover has been trying to make a biopic about Toussaint Louverture, who led a successful rebellion in the 18th century.

Glover was born on July 22, 1946 in San Francisco, California, to Carrie (Hunley) and James Glover. His parents were postal workers, active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He attended George Washington High School in San Francisco, and the San Francisco State University (SFSU) in the late 1960s, without graduating. SFSU later awarded him an honorary degree. While attending SFSU, Glover was a member of the Black Students Union, which, along with the Third World Liberation Front and the American Federation of Teachers, collaborated in a five-month student-led strike to establish a Department of Black Studies. The strike was the longest student walkout in U.S. history. It helped create not only the first Department of Black Studies but also the first School of Ethnic Studies in the United States.

Glover trained at the Black Actors’ Workshop of the American Conservatory Theater. He made his Broadway debut in Athol Fugard’s production Master Harold…and the Boys, which led to his first leading role in the 1984 film Places in the Heart, which was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar. The following year, Glover starred in two more Best Picture nominees: Peter Weir’s Witnessand Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple. In 1987, Glover partnered with Mel Gibson in the first Lethal Weaponfilm and went on to star in three hugely successfulLethal Weapon sequels.

In 1994 he made his directorial debut with the Showtime channel short film Override. Also in 1994, Glover and actor Ben Guillory formed the Robey Theatre Company in Los Angeles, focusing on theatre by and about Black people. During his career, he has made several cameos, appearing, for example, in the Michael Jackson video “Liberian Girl” of 1987. Glover earned top billing for the first time in Predator 2, the sequel to the sci-fi action film Predator. That same year he starred in Charles Burnett’s To Sleep with Anger, for which which he executive produced and for which he won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Actor. On the small screen, Glover won an Image Award and a Cable ACE Award and earned an Emmy nomination for his performance in the title role of the HBO movie Mandela. He has also received Emmy nominations for his work in the acclaimed miniseries Lonesome Dove and the telefilm Freedom Song. As a director, he earned a Daytime Emmy nomination for Showtime’s Just a Dream.

Glover has had a variety of film, stage, and television roles, but as also gained respect for his wide-reaching community activism and philanthropic efforts, with a particular emphasis on advocacy for economic justice, and access to health care and education programs in the United States and Africa. For these efforts, Glover received a 2006 DGA Honor. Internationally, Glover has served as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Program from 1998-2004, focusing on issues of poverty, disease, and economic development in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, and serves as UNICEF Ambassador.

In 2005, Glover co-founded Louverture Films dedicated to the development and production of films of historical relevance, social purpose, commercial value and artistic integrity. For more than 30 years, Glover has been trying to make a film biography of Toussaint Louverture for his directorial debut. According to Glover, the film lacked ‘whyte heroes’, and hence whyte producers refuse to financially support the project unless the lead is surrounded by fictionalized historically inaccurate whyte heroes. In May 2006, the film had included cast members Wesley Snipes, Angela Bassett, Don Cheadle, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Roger Guenveur Smith, Mos Def, Isaach de Bankolé, and Richard Bohringer. Production, estimated to cost $30 million, was planned to begin in Poland, filming from late 2006 into early 2007. In May 2007, President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez contributed $18 million to fund the production of Toussaint for Glover, who is a prominent U.S. supporter of Chávez. The contribution annoyed some Venezuelan filmmakers, who said the money could have funded other homegrown films and that Glover’s film was not even about Venezuela. In April 2008, the Venezuelan National Assembly authorized an additional $9,840,505 for Glover’s film, which is still in planning.

On April 6, 2009, Glover was given a chieftaincy title in Imo State, Nigeria. Glover was given the title Enyioma of Nkwerre, which means A Good Friend in the language of the Igbo people of Eastern Nigeria.

[thejaguartour]

🖤 Victoria Monét has been nominated for 6 NAACP Image Awards (listed below) 🖤

Make sure to go vote via the link above for:

🎶 Outstanding Album

🎶 Outstanding Collaboration

🎶 Outstanding Female Artist

🎶 Outstanding Music Video

🎶 Outstanding New Artist

🎶 Outstanding R&B Song

[lillaurenp96]

Congratulations to the nominees for NAACP Image Awards in you respective categories. The full list is at the bottom. Gonna shout-out the people I love and support. Long list incoming lol:

Colman Domingo (Rustin, Color Purple)

Fantasia Barrino (Color Purple)

Halle Bailey (The Color Purple, The Little Mermaid)

Keke Palmer (Password)

Usher

Victoria Monet

Coco Jones

Raye

Denzel Washington (Equalizer 3)

Jamie Foxx (The Burial)

Jeffery Wright (American Fiction)

John Boyega (They Cloned Tyrone)

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (Origin)

Teyana Taylor (A Thousand One)

Yara Shahidi (Sitting in Bars with Cake)

Corey Hawkins (The Color Purple)

Sterling K. Brown (American Fiction)

Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple)

Da'Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)

Erika Alexander (American Fiction)

Taraji P. Henson (The Color Purple)

Myla Davis-Kent (Creed 3)

Phylicia Pearl Mpasi (The Color Purple)

Ariana Debose (Wish)

Brian Tyree Henry (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Daniel Kaluuya (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse)

Issa Rae (Barbie, American Fiction, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse)

Calah Lane (Wonka)

Paul Yee (Joy Ride)

Kerry Washington (UnPrisoned)

Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary)

Tichina Arnold (The Neighborhood)

Tyler James Williams (Abbott Elementary)

Ayo Edebiri (The Bear)

Sheryl Lee Ralph (Abbott Elementary)

Damson Idris (Snowfall)

Jabari Banks (Bel-Air)

Angela Bassett (9-11)

India Ria Amarteifio (Queen Charlotte)

Octavia Spencer (Truth be Told)

Queen Latifah (The Equalizer)

Arsema Thomas (Queen Charlotte)

Nicole Beharie (The Morning Show)

Dominique Fishback (Swarm)

Chloe Bailey (Swarm, Praise This)

Jharrel Jerome (Full Circle)

Aja Naomi King (Lessons in Chemistry)

Micheala Jae Rodriguez (American Horror Story)

Jennifer Hudson

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Joe Lewis Thomas (July 5, 1973) known mononymously as Joe is a singer, songwriter, and record producer. Raised in Opelika, Alabama, he relocated to New Jersey, and in 1992 he signed a record deal with Polygram Records. He rose to prominence after releasing his debut album Everything the following year. He followed it with a series of successful albums under Jive Records, including All That I Am (1997), the international bestseller My Name Is Joe (2000) as well as the multi-certified albums Better Days (2001) and And Then... (2003). Several songs from these albums became hit singles on the pop and R&B record charts, including the #1 hit “Stutter”, the top ten entries “All the Things (Your Man Won’t Do)”, “Don’t Wanna Be a Player”, and “I Wanna Know” as well as his collaborations “Faded Pictures”, “Thank God I Found You” and “Still Not a Player”.

He was born in Columbus, Georgia, and was the child of evangelist preachers. He moved to Opelika, Alabama during his formative years and graduated from Opelika High School.

He released most of his projects independently through ventures with Kedar Massenburg and Plaid Takeover Entertainment. His twelfth album My Name Is Joe Thomas became his eleventh album to score a top five-placing on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, while lead single “So I Can Have You Back” became his fourth #1 hit on the Adult R&B Songs chart over three consecutive decades (1990s, 2000s, and 2010s). In 2010, Billboard listed Joe at 48th on its list of the Top 50 R&B and Hip Hop Artists of the past 25 years. An ASCAP Award recipient for his song “I Wanna Know”, he is a seven-time Grammy Award nominee and has been nominated for numerous other awards and accolades, including a BET Award, an NAACP Image Award, and four Soul Train Music Awards. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Patrice Rushen is a classically trained pianist who found success in the 70's and 80's with her signature fusion of jazz, pop and R&B. During this era, she composed and recorded the hit song, “Forget Me Nots,” which has been frequently covered and sampled by other artists.

Patrice Rushen can play the piano, the flute, the clarinet, and various percussion instruments.

In 2005, Rushen received an honorary doctorate of Music degree from Berklee College of Music. She is the chair of popular music at USC and the ambassador of artistry in Education at the Berklee College of Music. The four-time Grammy nominee has composed films for numerous movies, television shows, and documentaries.

She has been the first female musical director for many of the entertainment industry’s top award shows, including the Grammy Awards, the Emmy Awards, the People’s Choice Awards, the NAACP Image Awards, and HBO’s “Comic Relief V.”

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Pretty in Pink 💖 

Harvey looking stunning in a pink tux and black sheer top at the NAACP Image Awards Nominee Luncheon!