NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction
This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction. Maya Angelou, Michael Eric Dyson, and Barack Obama hold the record for most wins in this category, with two each.
Winners and nominees
[edit]1990s
[edit]| Year | Book | Author | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | By Any Means Necessary: The Trials and Tribulations of the Making of 'Malcolm X' | Spike Lee and Ralph Wiley | Winner | [1] |
| 1996 | ||||
| When We Were Colored | Clifton Taulbert | Winner | [2] | |
| 1999 | ||||
| With Ossie & Ruby: In This Life Together | Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee | Winner | [3] |
2000s
[edit]| Year | Book | Author | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Sally Hemings, An American Scandal | Tina Andrews | Winner | [4][better source needed] |
| 2003 | Keeping the Faith | Tavis Smiley | Winner | |
| A Song Flung Up to Heaven | Maya Angelou | Finalist | ||
| Bill Clinton and Black America | DeWayne Wickham | |||
| Growing Up X | Ilyasah Shabazz | |||
| Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters | Carla Kaplan | |||
| 2004 | Why I Love Black Women | Michael Eric Dyson | Winner | [5][better source needed] |
| 2005 | Hallelujah! The Welcome Table | Maya Angelou | Winner | [6][better source needed] |
| 2006 | Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? | Michael Eric Dyson | Winner | |
| Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir | Stanley Williams | Finalist | ||
| The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero's Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters and Speeches | Manning Marable and Myrlie Evers-Williams | |||
| 50 Years After Brown: The State of Black Equality in America | Anthony Asadullah Samad | |||
| Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America | John McWhorter | |||
| 2007 | The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream | Barack Obama | Winner | [7] |
| Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster | Michael Eric Dyson | Finalist | [7][8] | |
| The Covenant with Black America | Stanley Williams | |||
| Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete | William C. Rhoden | |||
| Not in My Family: AIDS in the African American Community | Gil L. Robertson | |||
| 2008 | Not on Our Watch | Don Cheadle and John Prendergast | Winner | [9] |
| An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President | Randall Robinson | Finalist | [10] | |
| Brother, I'm Dying | Edwidge Danticat | |||
| Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip-Hop | Michael Eric Dyson | |||
| Race and Racism in the Chinas: Chinese Racial Attitudes Toward Africans and African-Americans | M. Dujon Johnson | |||
| 2009 | Letter to My Daughter | Maya Angelou | Winner | [11][12] |
2010s
[edit]| Year | Book | Author | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | In Search of Our Roots | Henry Louis Gates Jr. | Winner | [14] |
| Freedom in My Heart: Voices From the United States National Slavery Museum | Cynthia Carter | Finalist | [15] | |
| Our Choice | Al Gore | |||
| Brain Surgeon: A Doctor's Inspiring Encounters With Mortality and Miracles | Arnold Mann and Keith Black | |||
| Family Affair: What It Means to Be African American Today | Gil L. Robertson | |||
| 2011 | The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness | Michelle Alexander | Winner | [16] |
| Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority | Tom Burrell | Finalist | ||
| Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts of Women in SNCC | Faith S. Holsaert | |||
| Surviving and Thriving 365 Days in Black Economic History | Julianne Malveaux | |||
| The History of White People | Nell Irvin Painter | |||
| 2012 | The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in Its Place | Hill Harper | Winner | [17] |
| Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America | Melissa Harris-Perry | Finalist | [17] | |
| Super Rich | Russell Simmons | |||
| The Cosmopolitan Canopy | Elijah Anderson | |||
| Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now | Touré | |||
| 2013 | The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court | Jeffrey Toobin | Winner | [18] |
| Fraternity | Diane Brady | Finalist | [18][19] | |
| Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation | Deborah Davis | |||
| Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman's Quest for Social Justice in America, from the Courtroom to the Kill Zones | Connie Rice | |||
| The Courage to Hope | Shirley Sherrod | |||
| 2014 | Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery | Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer | Winner | [20] |
| Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations: 5,000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs from Voices Around the World | Retha Powers | Finalist | [20] | |
| High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society | Carl Hart | |||
| Letters to an Incarcerated Brother: Encouragement, Hope, and Healing for Inmates and Their Loved Ones | Hill Harper | |||
| The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross | Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Donald Yacovone | |||
| 2015 | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption | Bryan Stevenson | Winner | [21] |
| Bad Feminist | Roxane Gay | Finalist | [21] | |
| Place Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America | Sheryll Cashin | |||
| Who We Be: The Colorization of America | Jeff Chang | |||
| 2016 | Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga | Pamela Newkirk | Winner | [22] |
| 50 Billion Dollar Boss: African American Women Sharing Stories of Success in Entrepreneurship and Leadership | Kathey Porter and Andrea Hoffman | Finalist | [22] | |
| Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America | Jill Leovy | |||
| Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America | Wil Haygood | |||
| The Light of the World | Elizabeth Alexander | |||
| 2017 | Hidden Figures | Margot Lee Shetterly | Winner | [23] |
| Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul | Eddie S. Glaude | Finalist | [23] | |
| Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America | Ibram X. Kendi | |||
| Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld | |||
| 2018 | Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies | Dick Gregory (posthumous) | Winner | [24] |
| Black Detroit – A People’s History of Self-Determination | Herb Boyd | Finalist | [24] | |
| Chokehold: Policing Black Men | Paul Butler | |||
| The President's Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas | Adrian Miller | |||
| We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |||
| 2019 | For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics | Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah D. Daughtry, Minyon Moore, Veronica Chambers | Winner | [25] |
| Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" | Zora Neale Hurston | Finalist | [25] | |
| Black Girls Rock! Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth | Beverly Bond | |||
| May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem | Imani Perry | |||
| The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row | Anthony Ray Hinton and Lara Love Hardin |
2020s
[edit]| Year | Book | Author | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations | Toni Morrison | Winner | [26] |
| Breathe: A Letter to My Sons | Imani Perry | Finalist | [26] | |
| STONY THE ROAD: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow | Henry Louis Gates Jr. | |||
| The Yellow House | Sarah M. Broom | |||
| What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essay | Damon Young | |||
| 2021 | A Promised Land | Barack Obama | Winner | [27] |
| A Black Women's History of the United States | Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross | Finalist | [28] | |
| Driving While Black | Gretchen Sorin | |||
| Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America | Michael Eric Dyson | |||
| We're Better Than This | Elijah Cummings | |||
| 2022 | The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story | Nikole Hannah-Jones | Winner | [29][30] |
| Dance Theatre of Harlem | Judy Tyrus and Paul Novosel | Finalist | [30] | |
| Just As I Am | Cicely Tyson | |||
| My Remarkable Journey | Katherine Johnson | |||
| Renegades: Born in the USA | Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen | |||
| 2023 | Finding Me | Viola Davis | Winner | [31] |
| Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America | Cody Keenan | Finalist | [32] | |
| Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation | Linda Villarosa | |||
| Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race | Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Andrew S. Curran | |||
| Requiem for the Massacre: A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre | RJ Young | |||
| 2024 | The New Brownies’ Book | Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer | Winner | [33] |
| Black AF History: The Un–Whitewashed Story of America | Michael Harriot | Finalist | [34] | |
| BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art | Zaria Ware | |||
| Iconic Home: Interiors, Advice, and Stories from 50 Amazing Black Designers | Black Interior Designers and June Reese | |||
| The Art of Ruth E. Carter | Ruth E. Carter | |||
| 2025 | Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest | Fawn Weaver | Winner | [35] |
| Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune | Noliwe Rooks | Finalist | [36] | |
| Picturing Black History: Photographs and Stories that Changed the World | Daniela Edmeier, Damarius Johnson, Nicholas B. Breyfogle and Steven Conn | |||
| The 1619 Project: A Visual Experience | Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine | |||
| The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America | Larry Tye | |||
| 2026 | A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm & Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics | Juanita Tolliver | Winner | [37] |
| Born in Flames | Bench Ansfield | Finalist | [38] | |
| From These Roots | Tamara Lanier | |||
| Hidden Hospitality: Untold Stories of Black Hotel, Motel, and Resort Owners from the Pioneer Days to the Civil Rights Era | Calvin Stovall Jr. | |||
| I Am Nobody’s Slave | Lee Hawkins |
Multiple wins and nominations
[edit]Wins
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Nominations
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References
[edit]- ↑ Leonardi, Marisa (January 7, 1994). "1994 Image Award Winners". LA Times. Archived from the original on July 15, 2012. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
- ↑ "1996 Image Award Winners". LA Times. April 8, 1996. Archived from the original on September 12, 2015. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
- ↑ "1999 Image Award Winners". Infoplease. Archived from the original on June 3, 2016. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
- ↑ "2002 Image Award Winners". Infoplease. Archived from the original on June 3, 2016. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
- ↑ "2004 Image Award Winners". Infoplease. Archived from the original on June 10, 2024. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
- ↑ "2005 Image Award Winners". Infoplease. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
- 1 2 Williams, Kam. "2006 Image Awards". AALBC. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
- ↑ Sneider, Jeff (January 9, 2007). "NAACP announces nominees". Variety. Archived from the original on December 19, 2022. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
- ↑ McCarthy, Libby; Peters, Derek (February 15, 2008). "'Debaters' dominates Image Awards". Variety. Archived from the original on December 25, 2023. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
- ↑ "The 39th NAACP Image Award Nominations". Variety. January 8, 2008. Archived from the original on April 8, 2023. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
- ↑ Hite, N'neka (February 13, 2009). "'Bees' big at NAACP Image Awards". Variety. Archived from the original on July 25, 2019. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
- ↑ "Awards: NAACP Image Literature; Arabic Fiction". Shelf Awareness. February 9, 2016. Archived from the original on October 1, 2017. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
- 1 2 "All NAACP Image Award Winning and Honored Books for Since 1970". African American Literature Book Club. Archived from the original on September 9, 2023. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
- ↑ "Awards: Indies Choice Finalists; NAACP Image Winners". Shelf Awareness. March 2, 2010. Archived from the original on February 23, 2023. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
- ↑ Engelbrektson, Lisa (January 6, 2010). "'Precious' tops NAACP nominations". Variety. Archived from the original on August 22, 2019. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
- ↑ "Awards: NAACP Image Awards; Arthur C. Clarke Shortlist". Shelf Awareness. March 7, 2011. Archived from the original on November 23, 2023. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
- 1 2 Allin, Olivia. "2012 Image Winners". ABC7. Archived from the original on January 6, 2016. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
- 1 2 Couch, Aaron (February 1, 2013). "2013 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on February 3, 2013. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
- ↑ Patrick, Diane (January 4, 2013). "40 Books Nominated for NAACP Image Awards". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on June 4, 2023. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
- 1 2 Couch, Aaron; Washington, Arlene (February 22, 2014). "2014 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on March 13, 2016. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
- 1 2 Washington, Arlene (February 6, 2015). "2015 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on April 27, 2016. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
- 1 2 "2016 Image Winners". Variety. February 6, 2016. Archived from the original on February 27, 2016. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
- 1 2 Lewis, Hilary; Washington, Arlene (February 10, 2017). "2017 Image Award Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on February 21, 2017. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
- 1 2 "NAACP Image Awards: Full List of Winners". The Hollywood Reporter (published 2018). January 14, 2018. Archived from the original on January 15, 2018. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
- 1 2 Nakamura, Reid (March 31, 2019). "NAACP Image Awards 2019: The Complete Winners List". TheWrap. Archived from the original on September 22, 2020. Retrieved June 19, 2020.
- 1 2 Schaffstall, Katherine; Howard, Annie (February 22, 2020). "NAACP Image Awards: Lizzo Named Entertainer of the Year; 'Just Mercy,' 'Black-ish' Among Top Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on April 21, 2021. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
- ↑ Jackson, Angelique (March 25, 2021). "Chadwick Boseman, 'Black-ish' and 'Insecure' Win Big at Final Night of Non-Televised NAACP Image Awards". Variety. Archived from the original on March 23, 2021. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
- ↑ Carras, Christi (February 2, 2021). "Netflix, HBO and Beyoncé lead 2021 NAACP Image Award nominations". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on February 28, 2021. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
- ↑ Brathwaite, Lester Fabian (February 27, 2022). "Angela Bassett, Will Smith, and Meghan Markle among 2022 NAACP Image Award winners: See full list". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on March 9, 2022. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
- 1 2 Cohn, Paulette (February 27, 2022). "Everything You Need to Know About the 2022 NAACP Image Awards—Including Harry and Meghan's Appearance and All the Winners!". Parade. Archived from the original on February 17, 2023. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
- ↑ Tinoco, Armando; Hipes, Patrick (February 26, 2023). "Angela Bassett "Did The Thing" & Is Crowned As Entertainer Of The Year At NAACP Image Awards – Complete Winners List". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on February 21, 2023. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
- ↑ Lewis, Hilary (January 12, 2023). "NAACP Image Awards 2023: 'Wakanda Forever,' 'The Woman King' Among Top Film Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on January 23, 2023. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
- ↑ Hipes, Patrick; Tinoco, Armando (March 17, 2024). "NAACP Image Awards Winners List: 'The Color Purple' Tops Night As Usher Takes Entertainer Of The Year Trophy". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on March 27, 2024. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
- ↑ "Nominees Announced for the 55th NAACP Image Awards". NAACP. January 25, 2024. Archived from the original on May 13, 2024. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
- ↑ Jackson, Angelique; Zee, Michaela (February 23, 2025). "NAACP Image Awards: 'The Six Triple Eight' Wins Outstanding Motion Picture; Keke Palmer Named Entertainer of the Year". Variety. Retrieved September 17, 2026.
- ↑ Lewis, Hilary (January 7, 2025). "NAACP Image Awards Nominations: 'The Piano Lesson' Leads Film Nods With 14". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved September 17, 2026.
- ↑ Victorian, Brande (February 24, 2026). "NAACP Image Awards: Michelle Obama, Will Packer and Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl Halftime Show Among Night One Non-Televised Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved September 17, 2026.
- ↑ Reports, AmNews Staff (January 12, 2026). "Nominees announced for NAACP Image Awards". New York Amsterdam News. Retrieved September 17, 2026.