#NAACP Image Awards (2020)

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On January 25, 1980, Black Entertainment Television (BET) officially made its debut, marking a significant milestone in media history 45 years ago. Founder, Robert L. Johnson, saw the vision for a television programming network, specifically designed for an African American audience during his time as a cable industry lobbyist. The network gained prominence through its syndicated shows, such as Video Soul, Rap City, 106 & Park, Teen Summit, which now advanced to the network hosting numerous TV shows, movies, the BET Awards, and much more. (📸: The Smithsonian)

Happy 45th anniversary, black entertainment television

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Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 To You The Most Beautiful & Hilarious Black🤎 Actress On TV & Comedy Movies In The 90's & 1 Of The Earliest Celebrity Crushes Of My Childhood ❤💕

She was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and raised in Newark, New Jersey, where she attended Newark Arts High School and also East Orange, New Jersey, where she attended Washington Academy of Music.

She is an American actress. She made her screen debut appearing in the 1986 rock musical comedy film Little Shop of Horrors, and later starred on the short-lived NBC musical comedy drama Rags to Riches (1987–1988).

She has appeared in films including School Daze (1988), Rooftops (1989), Another 48 Hrs. (1990), Boomerang (1992), and Sprung (1997). She received Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female nomination for her performance in the 1990 comedy film House Party, and later starred in its two sequels House Party 2 (1991) and House Party 3 (1994).

On television, Campbell starred as Gina Waters-Payne in the Fox comedy series Martin from 1992 to 1997, and as Janet "Jay" Marie Johnson-Kyle in the ABC comedy series My Wife and Kids (2001–2005), for which she received NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series. She later had regular roles on Rita Rocks (Lifetime, 2008–2009), The Protector (Lifetime, 2011), Dr. Ken (ABC, 2015–2017), Outmatched (Fox, 2020) and Uncoupled (Netflix, 2022).

Please Wish This Beautiful & Funny Comedic Black 🤎 Actress Of Iconic Comedy TV Shows & Movies, A Very Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊

YOU ALL SHOULD KNOW HER

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THE 1 & ONLY

MS. TISHA MICHELLE CAMPBELL ❤ 🤎

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊

TO YOU MS. CAMPBELL & HERE'S TO MANY MORE FABULOUS YEARS FOR YOU TO COME.

#TishaCampbell #HouseParty #Martin #MyWifeandKids

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"Don’t love what you wrote? Keep writing. The goal of NaNoWriMo is words, not editing. That part comes later."

— India Hill Brown is an author with a passion for writing, reading, and all things literary. Her debut novel, The Forgotten Girl, has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Youth/Teens and a 2020 ALSC Notable Children’s Book. She graduated from Claflin University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Communications and with a Concentration in Print Journalism. In her spare time, she can be found curling up with a good book, a hot drink, and a snack. A self-proclaimed southern belle, she lives in the Carolinas with her husband and two sons.

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Steven Williams (January 7, 1949) is an actor in films and television. He is known for his roles as Jimmy Lee on Cooley High, Captain Adam Fuller on 21 Jump Street, Lt. Jefferson Burnett on The Equalizer, Det. August Brooks on L.A. Heat, X on The X-Files, Russell “Linc” Lincoln in Linc’s, Rufus Turner in Supernatural, Paul Davis on Snowfall, Quentin on The Chi, and Alexander Cora on The Family Business.

Throughout his career, he has appeared in numerous films, including The Blues Brothers (1980), Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993), 22 Jump Street (2014), It (2017), and Birds of Prey (2020).

He has been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award and one NAACP Image Award.

He was born in Memphis and was reared in Chicago. His parents were divorced, and he was raised at separate times by his father in Michigan, his mother in Chicago, and his maternal grandparents in Millington, Tennessee. In Chicago, he attended Wendell Phillips High School. He matriculated at the General Motors Institute, an automaker’s engineering school.

He was drafted into the Army, serving in the 2nd Armored Division, stationed in Gelnhausen, Germany, and became Divisional Champion with the Army Boxing Team, Middleweight Division. Upon receiving an Honorable Discharge from the Army, he worked for the USPS as a mailman. After delivering the mail in subzero temperatures, he went to work in Chicago’s garment district as an apparel salesman.

He was married to talent agent Ann Geddes and the couple has two daughters. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Chloe Bailey In Sally LaPoint at the 2020 NAACP Image Awards

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HALLE BAILEY // SINGER-SONGWRITER

“She is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She first became known as one half of the musical duo Chloe x Halle with her sister Chloe Bailey. They have released the albums The Kids Are Alright (2018) and Ungodly Hour (2020), and have together earned five Grammy Award nominations. In 2023, Bailey released her debut solo single "Angel", which was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best R&B Song. Her role in The Little Mermaid earned her nominations for a Saturn Award and a People's Choice Award. That same year, she had a supporting role in the musical film The Color Purple, for which she won an NAACP Image Award and received nominations for a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Critics' Choice Movie Award.”

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Janelle Monáe 

Janelle Monáe è cantautrice, attrice, produttrice, attivista e modella. Canta, recita, scrive, si espone, ha fatto del suo corpo e del suo talento un vessillo di libertà e fierezza.

Con otto candidature ai Grammy Award, ha vinto numerosi premi per il suo impegno artistico e sociale.

In prima linea per rivendicare i diritti delle donne, delle persone Lgbtq+ e razzializzate, ha messo la sua arte al servizio dei diritti umani.

Il suo nome completo Janelle Monáe Robinson ed è nata a Kansas City, il 1º dicembre 1985 in una famiglia della working class. Da piccola cantava nel coro della chiesta battista e a soli dodici anni già scriveva copioni per compagnie teatrali locali. Grazie a una borsa di studio, ha frequentato, unica ragazza nera della sua classe, l’American Musical and Dramatic Academy di New York, che ha lasciato per trasferirsi ad Atlanta, in una casa condivisa con altre cinque ragazze, lavorando come impiegata per mantenersi agli studi, mentre coltivava il sogno di scrivere musical e esordire a Broadway.

Mentre girava nei college per promuovere le sue prime canzoni, ha incontrato i cantautori Chuck Lightning e Nate Wonder con cui ha fondato la Wondaland Arts Society, etichetta underground nata per supportare giovani talenti in cerca di una libera dimora. Una casa in cui poter sviluppare suoni e visioni senza alcun freno, abbandonando le aspettative sull’arte, la razza, il genere, la cultura e la gravità.

Dopo diverse collaborazioni, nel 2007, ha pubblicato il suo primo lavoro solista, l’EP Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase) poi incorporato nel suo primo disco The ArchAndroid del 2010, concept album ambientato nel 2719 in cui Cindi Mayweather, il suo alter ego androide, figura messianica nel mondo di Metropolis, paladina di un movimento per sconfiggere il pregiudizio, guidando la gente alla ribellione e alla ricerca della libertà.

Del 2013 è The Electric Lady, promosso dal singolo Q.U.E.E.N. (Queer, Untouchables, Emigrants, Excommunicated, Negroid), che ha vinto  un MTV Video Music Awards, un NAACP Image Award e un Soul Train Music Award.

Nel 2018, quando ha pubblicato il terzo progetto solista, Dirty Computer,  ha dichiarato: “Voglio che le ragazze, i ragazzi, le persone non binarie, etero, gay, queer che hanno difficoltà a gestire la loro sessualità, che si sentono ostracizzate o vittime di bullismo solo per il fatto di essere se stesse, sappiano che le vedo e le sostengo.”

Nel 2023, è uscito il quarto album in studio The Age of Pleasure.

Il 14 aprile 2014 è stata premiata con l’Harvard College Women’s Center Award for Achievement in Arts and Media per i suoi contributi artistici e sostegno al femminismo e ha ricevuto il titolo di Woman of the Year al Celebration of Black Women gala dell’Università di Harvard.

Da attrice ha recitato in film pluripremiati che raccontano le battaglie, il coraggio e l’esempio di donne nere come Il Diritto di Contare e Harriet. È comparsa in diverse serie televisive, ha prestato la sua voce a personaggi d’animazione e cantato in numerose colonne sonore.

Nel 2020 è stata nel cast del film The Glorias: A Life on the Road sulla storia dell’attivista femminista Gloria Steinem e ha aperto la 92ª edizione dei Premi Oscar con una canzone di Billy Porter che ha evidenziato i molti film candidati e quelli snobbati dall’Accademia.

Nel 2022 ha pubblicato il suo primo libro, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer.

Nel 2023 i Critics’ Choice Awards l’hanno premiata con il #SeeHer Award per aver onorato personaggi interpretati autenticamente che sfuggono agli stereotipi, si spingono oltre i limiti e si battono per l’uguaglianza di genere.

Col suo stile che mescola un funky energico e progressioni soul, la capacità di mantenere il palco, la scelta oculata dei suoi personaggi cinematografici, l’attivismo e magnetismo, ha incantato il mondo, a partire da celebrità come Michelle e Barack Obama che, dopo una storica performance alla Casa Bianca, l’hanno voluta in uno show che hanno prodotto.

Janelle Monáe Robinson è una potenza in grado di sfruttare la sua visibilità per apportare un enorme contributo al femminismo intersezionale.

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NIGERIAN GRAMMY AWARD WINNING SUPERSTAR WIZKID DELIVERS HIS SIXTH STUDIO ALBUM MORAYO

 Today, Grammy Award winning and multi-Platinum selling Nigerian superstar Wizkid delivers his sixth studio album Morayovia Starboy/Sony Music International/RCA Records –click here to listen. This album is very personal to Wiz as it’s a tribute to his late mother; the meaning of the Yoruba word MORAYO is "I see joy.” Prior to album release, Wiz dropped his single and video for “Piece of My Heart” featuring Brent Faiyaz  (click here to listen / click here to watch) and his single “Kese (Dance).” Both singles broke records as the most streamed songs in Nigerian Spotify history in a single day. 

Most recently, Wiz earned a 2025 Grammy nomination for Best African Music Performance for “MMS” with Asake. Wiz also performed at the BOF 500 Gala in addition to Wizkid and Brent stepping out at Paris Fashion Week this year to attend the iconic Chanel show. All of this was followed by an intimate Ladies First party in London to give select fans a first listen to “Piece of My Heart.” 

This album comes after the release of Wizkid’s fifth studio album More Love, Less Egoin 2022. He had major milestones around this previous album including his incredible Apple Music Live performance with Apple Music and his first-ever Madison Square Garden show in New York.

Throughout the years, Wizkid’s reached momentous career markers that have made him into the global superstar he is today. In 2020, he garnered a Grammy nomination for his RIAA-certified Gold album Made in Lagos, which has amassed over a billion streams. The album’s 2021 deluxe version had the Justin Bieber remixed lead single “Essence” (featuring Tems) that peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, won a 2022 BET Award for“Best Collaboration”and a 2022 NAACP Image Award for “Outstanding International Song.”On top of all the accolades, he made history having the first Nigerian song to chart on both the Hot 100 and Global 200charts. The original Grammy nominated version of “Essence” featuring Tems is a 4x Platinum smash hit that reached #1 at Urban Radio and #1 on Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart. Other collaborators Wizkid has worked with previously include Ayra Starr, Chris Brown, Don Toliver, Skepta and more.

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Timothy Cobb, Christmas Stories Christian Sands mack avenue, 2023

Pianist/composer Christian Sands' cinematic approach to popular holiday classics takes center stage with Christmas Stories, his first album since his critically acclaimed, GRAMMY-nominated 2020 release Be Water. Having performed in-demand Christmas shows at Jazz at Lincoln Center and around the world, Sands offers such classics as "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!," "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," "Silent Night," "Jingle Bells," and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," as well as a few surprises. Joining the NAACP Image Award nominee are vibraphonist Stefon Harris, saxophonist Jimmy Greene, guitarists Max Light and Marvin Sewell, bassist Yasushi Nakamura, percussionist Keita Ogawa, and drummer Ryan Sands.　Amazon

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Zaya Wade Granted Name and Gender Affirmation by LA Court It’s official, Zaya Wade was granted an official name change and assignment of gender in a Los Angeles Court on Friday. Wade has gone by "Zaya" since 2020 after coming out as transgender. With the support of her father, former NBA player Dwyane Wade, and stepmother, Gabrielle Union, Wade has come into herself and popular culture, recently featuring in Puma’s ‘Forever.Classic’ campaign alongside Angus Cloud, Caleb McLaughlin and Iris Apatow. Related | Dwyane Wade Filed to Change Daughter's Legal Name and GenderUnion and her husband have become voices of LGBTQ+ allyship and were honored with the President’s Award at the 2023 NAACP Image Awards “in recognition of special achievement and distinguished public service.” The couple used their time to honor Wade and shine a light on the injustices facing LGBTQ+ youth today, with over 120 anti-trans bills introduced across the United States in 2023. “Black trans people are being targeted, terrorized, and hunted in this country every day, everywhere, and there’s rarely whisper about it,” Union said in an impassioned speech. “We honestly don’t approach this work as activists or leaders as much as we do this as parents,” she said. “Parents who love our children and will do whatever the hell we can to keep them seen and secure and safe.”Dwyane spoke directly to his daughter, sharing: “Zaya, as your father, all I’ve wanted to do was get it right. I’ve sat back and watched how gracefully you’ve taken on the public scrutiny. And even though it’s not easy, I watched you walk out of that house every morning as yourself. I admire how you’ve handled the ignorance in our world.” The road to legally affirming Wade's name and gender was no cakewalk since her father's filing in August 2022. In filing last November, Wade's biological mother, Siohvaughn Funches-Wade, alleged Dwyane was using their daughter's pursuit of name and gender affirmation to “profit.” The former basketball player responded to the allegations on Instagram, stating, "I've received a social media post about me forcing our 15 year old child to be someone she's not and to do something against her will. These are serious and harmful allegations that have hurt our children.” Related | Dwyane Wade Responds to Accusations That He's 'Pressuring' DaughterWith that behind her, Zaya Wade is embarking on her life and future as wholly herself. Photo courtesy of Jacopo Raule/GC Images https://www.papermag.com/zaya-wade-name-change-2659474341.html

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RCA Inspiration Celebrates Multiple Wins For 2023 GRAMMY Awards

RCA Inspiration celebrated multiple wins at the 2023 GRAMMY Awards, as the acclaimed album release Kingdom Book One Deluxe (Tribl Records/Fo Yo Soul/RCA Inspiration) swept its 3 nominated categories, winning Best Gospel Album, Best Gospel Performance/Song, and Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song during the GRAMMYs Premiere Ceremony. The live album collaboration between GRAMMY-winning chart toppers Maverick City Music & Kirk Franklin (Fo Yo Soul/RCA) dominated the Gospel categories with Kingdom Book One Deluxe awarded Best Gospel Album, and the songs “Kingdom” awarded Best Gospel Performance/Song and “Fear Is Not My Future” awarded Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song. Kirk Franklin has done it again, since last taking home GRAMMY wins in the Best Gospel Performance/Song and Best Gospel Album categories in 2020 for his most recent solo album LONG LIVE LOVE, and its hit song “Love Theory.” With these three additional wins for this latest album Kingdom Book One Deluxe, this now marks a total of 19 GRAMMY Awards in Kirk Franklin’s career. Recorded with Maverick City Music, Franklin and the group continue to bring the power of Gospel to reach everyone with their 22-track album. Released in 2022, their collaboration created an electrifying live worship experience, recorded in a Florida prison yard together with the voices of 1,300 inmates, to share a message of love and awareness to the plight of mass incarceration. The GRAMMY-winning Gospel song “Kingdom” was written by Kirk Franklin, Jonathan Jay, Chandler Moore, and Jacob Poole. The Contemporary Christian Music-winning song “Fear Is Not My Future” was written by Kirk Franklin, Nicole Hannel, Jonathan Jay, Brandon Lake, and Hannah Shackelford. Next up, the Kingdom Book One album is nominated at the 54th NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Gospel/Christian Album, with voting open at https://vote.naacpimageawards.net/, until February 10th. Separately, Kirk Franklin is one of the executive producers of the popular television series “Kingdom Business,” which was just renewed for Season 2 on BET+. The 65th GRAMMY Awards aired from Los Angeles, on Sunday, February 5th, 2023. Check out the GRAMMY acceptance speeches for their 3 winning categories here: https://youtu.be/gpPs_IpsAeg Check out the album, Maverick City Music x Kirk Franklin: Kingdom Book One Deluxe (Tribl Records/Fo Yo Soul/RCA Inspiration) https://MaverickCityXKirkFranklin.lnk.to/KingdomPR Read the full article

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The companion to the #1 New York Times bestseller and NAACP Image Award winner Stacey's Extraordinary Words, from political leader Stacey Abrams and artist Kitt Thomas.Stacey's favorite day of the week is Thursday, when the whole class goes to the library and she gets to lose herself in her beloved books.On one of these special days, Stacey discovers that a new student named Julie has trouble reading in English, so they begin sharing books and stories to practice. Soon, more students start to join them.Books take the group on magical adventures and reveal other worlds and cultures--but best of all, they bring them together as friends.This is another inspiring tale, based on a true story from Stacey Abrams's childhood, about the life-changing power of books.

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Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 To The Most Amazing Actresss Of Guyana 🇬🇾 That You Ever Did See Or Heard Of.  The Most Marvelous Actress In The MCU & The Sister Of King T'Challa Herself🖤.

She was born on 31 October 1993 in Georgetown, Guyana. She has one brother, Ivan Bombokka. Her family moved to London, England, when she was eight years old, and she attended Northumberland Park Community School. while her brother relocated to Europe.

She is a Guyanese-British actress. She began her career with guest roles in the television series Top Boy, Coming Up, Chasing Shadows, Humans, Doctor Who, and Black Mirror. For the latter, she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. She then had her breakthrough for her role in the 2015 film Urban Hymn, for which the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) named Wright among the 2015 group of BAFTA Breakthrough Brits.

In 2018, she attained global recognition for her portrayal of SHURI 

IN THE  MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE  FILM  BLACK PANTHER, for which she won an NAACP Image Award and a SAG Award. She reprised the role in Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022). In 2019, she received the BAFTA Rising Star Award. She also appeared in Steve McQueen's 2020 anthology series Small Axe, which earned her a Satellite Award nomination.

On 1 February 2023, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Arts and Letters from the University of Guyana at an Extraordinary Convocation Ceremony.

PLEASE WISH

THE SOON TO BE NEW QUEEN OF THE AFRICAN NATION OF WAKANDA 🌍  HERSELF, SHURI

A VERY HAPPY WAKANDAN BIRTHDAY 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊

YOU KNOW HER

YOU LOVE HER 🖤

& YOU JUST CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT HER, UNLESS THERE IS A CHALLENGE DAY

FOR THERE IS NO CHALLENGE TODAY

PLEASE GIVE IT UP FOR

THE 1 &

ONLY.

MS. LETITIA WRIGHT🇬🇾 🖤 🌍  AKA PRINCESS 👸🏿 SHURI OF WAKANDA 🌍

HAPPY 30TH BIRTHDAY TO YOU 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 MS. WRIGHT & HERES TO MANY MORE YEARS TO COME

LETITIA FOREVER 🖤🙅🏿‍♂️

#LetitiaWright  #Shuri #BlackPanther #WakandaForever

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Lizzo accepts Entertainer of the Year from Janelle Monáe on February 22, 2020

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Charles Kent Wilson (January 29, 1953) known as Uncle Charlie, is a singer, musician, songwriter, and the former lead vocalist of the Gap Band. As a solo artist, he has been nominated for 13 Grammy awards and 11 NAACP Image Awards (including two wins), received a 2009 Soul Train Icon Award, and was a recipient of a BMI Icon Award in 2005. In 2009 and 2020, he was named Billboard Magazine’s #1 Adult R&B Artist, and his song “There Goes My Baby” was named the #1 Urban Adult Song for 2009 Billboard Magazine.

He was born in Tulsa, he was the son of the Reverend Oscar Wilson, a minister in the Church of God in Christ. With his older brother Ronnie and younger brother Robert, Wilson often sang in church, accompanied on piano by their mother. He sang in his junior high school’s choir, which was a precursor to his musical career with the Gap Band and his solo career. He attended high school at Booker T. Washington. He attended Langston University and became a drum major in the Langston University Marching Pride.

On June 30, 2013, BET honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

He is the national spokesman of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, where there is a Creativity Award in his name.

He married Mahin Tat (1995) and she was his social worker during his time in a drug rehabilitation program. Since 1995, he has been clean from his cocaine and alcohol addictions that led him to become homeless and to begin sleeping on the streets of Hollywood Boulevard (1993-95). In 2008, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and treated successfully with implants. He has since worked with the Prostate Cancer Foundation, encouraging Black men to be tested for the disease. He has spread awareness by providing vocals for Lupe Fiasco’s single, titled “Mission”, which focuses on cancer survivors. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Janelle Monae In Balmain at the 2020 NAACP Image Awards