53rd NAACP Image Awards

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The 53rd NAACP Image Awards, presented by the NAACP, honored outstanding representations and achievements of people of color in motion pictures, television, music, and literature during the 2021 calendar year. The ceremony aired on February 26, 2022, on BET and simulcast on several of its sister Paramount Global Networks.{{Cite web|last=Mekishana|first=Pierre|date=January 18, 2022|title=2022 NAACP Image Awards Nominations: The Full List|url=https://www.etonline.com/2022-naacp-image-awards-nominations-the-full-list-177914|url-status=live|access-date=2022-01-19|website=Entertainment Tonight|language=en-US|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220118183412/https://www.etonline.com/2022-naacp-image-awards-nominations-the-full-list-177914 |archive-date = 2022-01-18 }} The ceremony was hosted for the ninth time by actor Anthony Anderson. Presentations of untelevised categories were livestreamed on January 18, 2022, on the ceremony's website.{{Cite web|last=Spivey|first=Kemberlie|date=2022-01-19|title=2022 NAACP Image Awards Nominations: The Full List|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kemberliespivey/2022/01/18/2022-naacp-image-awards-nominations-the-full-list/|url-status=live|access-date=2022-01-20|website=Forbes|language=en|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220119025807/https://www.forbes.com/sites/kemberliespivey/2022/01/18/2022-naacp-image-awards-nominations-the-full-list/ |archive-date = 2022-01-19 }}

The nominations were announced on January 18, 2022, with the film The Harder They Fall and the comedy series Insecure leading the nominations with twelve each.{{Cite web|last=Lewis|first=Hilary|date=2022-01-18|title=NAACP Image Awards: 'Harder They Fall,' 'Insecure' Lead Nominations|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/naacp-image-awards-2022-nominations-nominees-list-1235076593/|url-status=live|access-date=2022-01-18|website=The Hollywood Reporter|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118180703/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/naacp-image-awards-2022-nominations-nominees-list-1235076593/ |archive-date=2022-01-18 }} In the recording categories, H.E.R. received the most nominations with six, followed by Chlöe, Drake, Silk Sonic and Jazmine Sullivan with four each.{{Cite magazine|last=Grein|first=Paul|date=2022-01-18|title=H.E.R. Is the Top Music Nominee for 2022 NAACP Image Awards|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/2022-naacp-image-awards-nominations-her-top-music-nominee-1235019793/|url-status=live|access-date=2022-01-18|magazine=Billboard|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220118181418/https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/2022-naacp-image-awards-nominations-her-top-music-nominee-1235019793/ |archive-date = 2022-01-18 }} For the first time in the history of the awards ceremony, it have been included five categories to reward podcasts and social media influencer.{{Cite magazine|last=Nazareno|first=Mia|date=2021-11-18|title=Here's the Date of the 2022 NAACP Image Awards: In its 53rd year, the Image Awards have added four new podcast categories.|url=https://www.billboard.com/culture/tv-film/2022-naacp-image-awards-date-1234999290/|url-status=live|access-date=2022-01-20|magazine=Billboard|language=en-US|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211118171737/https://www.billboard.com/culture/tv-film/2022-naacp-image-awards-date-1234999290/ |archive-date = 2021-11-18 }}

American journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones was honored with the Social Justice Impact Award at the ceremony for her "social efforts in reporting for The New York Times Magazine about the police injustices and crimes against black people in the United States".{{Citation|title=Announcement of Social Justice Impact Award Honoree|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONlIUJICoQY|language=en|access-date=2022-01-27}} American actor and producer Samuel L. Jackson was also honored with the Chairman's Award, for his "social activism in the 1960s, even serving as an usher at Martin Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral. His continued public service and advocacy for social change".{{Cite web|last=Grobar|first=Matt|date=2022-02-03|title=Samuel L. Jackson To Receive Chairman's Award At 53rd NAACP Image Awards; Scot X. Esdaile & Channing Hill Set For Additional Honors|url=https://deadline.com/2022/02/samuel-l-jackson-to-receive-chairmans-award-at-53rd-naacp-image-awards-1234926108/|access-date=2022-02-17|website=Deadline|language=en-US}}

For the first time since 1993 ceremony, members of the Mexican American Legislative Caucus, Texas House Democratic Caucus and Texas Legislative Black Caucus were recognized with the Roy Wilkins Civil Rights Award to "exemplify the spirit of the NAACP".{{Cite magazine|last=Grein|first=Paul|date=2022-02-17|title=Mary J. Blige Set to Perform at 2022 NAACP Image Awards|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/2022-naacp-image-awards-mary-j-blige-to-perform-1235033023/|access-date=2022-02-17|magazine=Billboard|language=en-US}}

The ceremony honored the President of the Connecticut State Conference of NAACP Branches, Scot X. Esdaile, with the first ever Activist of the Year Award. NAACP Youth-Council founder Chinning Hill was recognized with the first ever Youth Activist of the Year Award.{{Cite web|last=Lewis|first=Hilary|date=2022-02-17|title=NAACP Image Awards: Mary J. Blige to Perform; Issa Rae, Morgan Freeman, Zendaya Among Presenters|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/mary-j-blige-performing-naacp-image-awards-2022-presenters-1235095684/|access-date=2022-02-17|website=The Hollywood Reporter}}

All nominees are listed below, and the winners are listed in bold.{{Cite web |last=Zhan |first=Jennifer |date=2022-02-26 |title=NAACP Image Awards Winners Include Jazmine Sullivan, Will Smith, Red Table Talk |url=https://www.vulture.com/2022/02/naacp-image-awards-2022-winners-full-list.html |access-date=2022-02-27 |website=Vulture |language=en-us}}

Special Awards

File:Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.jpg and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex were honored with the President's Award.]]

File:Nikole Hannah-Jones (42609588724) (cropped).jpg was honored with the Social Justice Impact Award.]]

File:Re publica 18 - Day 1 (26984263637) (cropped).jpg was honored with the NAACP-Archewell Digital Civil Rights Award.]]

style="width=50%" \|Chairman's Award
class="wikitable" ! style="width=50%" \|President's Award
valign="top" width="50%" \| Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
valign="top" width="50%" \| Samuel L. Jackson
style="width=50%" \|Roy Wilkins Civil Rights Award
valign="top" width="50%" \| Mexican American Legislative Caucus Texas House Democratic Caucus Texas Legislative Black Caucus
style="width=50%" \|Entertainer of the Year
valign="top" width="50%" \| Jennifer Hudson Lil Nas X Megan Thee Stallion Regina King Tiffany Haddish
style="width=50%" \|Social Justice Impact Award
valign="top" width="50%" \| Nikole Hannah-Jones
style="width=50%" \|Youth Activist of the Year
valign="top" width="50%" \| Channing Hill
style="width=50%" \|Activist of the Year
valign="top" width="50%" \| Scot X. Esdaile
style="width=50%" \|NAACP-Archewell Digital Civil Rights Award
valign="top" width="50%" \| Safiya Noble

Motion Picture

class="wikitable" ! style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Motion Picture ! style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture
valign="top" width="50%" \| *The Harder They Fall* Judas and the Black Messiah King Richard Respect The United States vs. Billie Holiday \| valign="top" width="50%" \| Shaka King – Judas and the Black Messiah Denzel Washington – A Journal for Jordan Jeymes Samuel – The Harder They Fall Lin-Manuel Miranda – Tick, Tick... Boom! Reinaldo Marcus Green – King Richard
style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture ! style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
valign="top" width="50%" \| Will Smith – King Richard Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth Jonathan Majors – The Harder They Fall Lakeith Stanfield – Judas and the Black Messiah Mahershala Ali – Swan Song \| valign="top" width="50%" \| Jennifer Hudson – Respect Andra Day – The United States vs. Billie Holiday Halle Berry – Bruised Tessa Thompson – Passing Zendaya – Malcolm & Marie
style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture ! style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
valign="top" width="50%" \| Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah Algee Smith – Judas and the Black Messiah Delroy Lindo – The Harder They Fall Idris Elba – The Harder They Fall Lakeith Stanfield – The Harder They Fall \| valign="top" width="50%" \| Regina King – The Harder They Fall Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard Audra McDonald – Respect Danielle Deadwyler – The Harder They Fall Dominique Fishback – Judas and the Black Messiah
style="width=50%" \|Outstanding International Motion Picture ! style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Independent Motion Picture
valign="top" width="50%" \| *7 Prisoners* African America Eyimofe (This is My Desire) Flee The Gravedigger's Wife \| valign="top" width="50%" \| *CODA* American Skin Bruised Test Pattern The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Breakthrough Performance in a Motion Picture ! style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture
valign="top" width="50%" \| Danny Boyd Jr. – Bruised Ariana DeBose – West Side Story Jalon Christian – A Journal for Jordan Lonnie Chavis – The Water Man Sheila Atim – Bruised \| valign="top" width="50%" \| *The Harder They Fall* Coming 2 America Judas and the Black Messiah King Richard Respect
style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Animated Motion Picture ! style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Character Voice Performance – Motion Picture
valign="top" width="50%" \| *Encanto* Luca Raya and the Last Dragon Sing 2 Vivo \| valign="top" width="50%" \| Letitia Wright – Sing 2 Andre Braugher – Spirit Untamed Awkwafina – Raya and the Last Dragon Brian Tyree Henry – Vivo Eric André – Sing 2
style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Short Form (Live Action) ! style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Short Form (Animated)
valign="top" width="50%" \| *When The Sun Sets (Lakutshon’ Ilanga)* Aurinko in Adagio Blackout The Ice Cream Stop These Final Hours \| valign="top" width="50%" \| *Us Again* Blush Robin Robin She Dreams at Sunrise Twenty Something
style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Breakthrough Creative (Motion Picture) ! style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture
valign="top" width="50%" \| Jeymes Samuel – The Harder They Fall Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson – Summer of Soul Jamila Wignot – Ailey Liesl Tommy – Respect Rebecca Hall – Passing \| valign="top" width="50%" \| Shaka King, Will Berson, Kenny Lucas, Keith Lucas – Judas and the Black Messiah Janicza Bravo, Jeremy O. Harris – Zola Jeymes Samuel, Boaz Yakin – The Harder They Fall Virgil Williams – A Journal for Jordan Win Rosenfeld, Nia DaCosta, Jordan Peele – Candyman

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! style="width=50%" |Outstanding Motion Picture

! style="width=50%" |Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture

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Shaka King – Judas and the Black Messiah
Denzel Washington – A Journal for Jordan
Jeymes Samuel – The Harder They Fall
Lin-Manuel Miranda – Tick, Tick... Boom!
Reinaldo Marcus Green – King Richard

style="width=50%" |Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture

! style="width=50%" |Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture

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Will Smith – King Richard
Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth
Jonathan Majors – The Harder They Fall
Lakeith Stanfield – Judas and the Black Messiah
Mahershala Ali – Swan Song

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Jennifer Hudson – Respect
Andra Day – The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Halle Berry – Bruised
Tessa Thompson – Passing
Zendaya – Malcolm & Marie

style="width=50%" |Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture

! style="width=50%" |Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

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Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah
Algee Smith – Judas and the Black Messiah
Delroy Lindo – The Harder They Fall
Idris Elba – The Harder They Fall
Lakeith Stanfield – The Harder They Fall

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Regina King – The Harder They Fall
Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard
Audra McDonald – Respect
Danielle Deadwyler – The Harder They Fall
Dominique Fishback – Judas and the Black Messiah

style="width=50%" |Outstanding International Motion Picture

! style="width=50%" |Outstanding Independent Motion Picture

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7 Prisoners
African America
Eyimofe (This is My Desire)
Flee
The Gravedigger's Wife

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style="width=50%" |Outstanding Breakthrough Performance in a Motion Picture

! style="width=50%" |Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture

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Danny Boyd Jr. – Bruised
Ariana DeBose – West Side Story
Jalon Christian – A Journal for Jordan
Lonnie Chavis – The Water Man
Sheila Atim – Bruised

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The Harder They Fall
Coming 2 America
Judas and the Black Messiah
King Richard
Respect

style="width=50%" |Outstanding Animated Motion Picture

! style="width=50%" |Outstanding Character Voice Performance – Motion Picture

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style="width=50%" |Outstanding Short Form (Live Action)

! style="width=50%" |Outstanding Short Form (Animated)

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When The Sun Sets (Lakutshon’ Ilanga)
Aurinko in Adagio
Blackout
The Ice Cream Stop
These Final Hours

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Us Again
Blush
Robin Robin
She Dreams at Sunrise
Twenty Something

style="width=50%" |Outstanding Breakthrough Creative (Motion Picture)

! style="width=50%" |Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture

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Jeymes Samuel – The Harder They Fall
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson – Summer of Soul
Jamila Wignot – Ailey
Liesl Tommy – Respect
Rebecca Hall – Passing

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Shaka King, Will Berson, Kenny Lucas, Keith Lucas – Judas and the Black Messiah
Janicza Bravo, Jeremy O. Harris – Zola
Jeymes Samuel, Boaz Yakin – The Harder They Fall
Virgil Williams – A Journal for Jordan
Win Rosenfeld, Nia DaCosta, Jordan Peele – Candyman

Television and Streaming

= Drama =

class="wikitable" style="width=72%" ! colspan="2" style="width=50%" \| Outstanding Drama Series
colspan="2" valign="top" \| *Queen Sugar* 9-1-1 All American Godfather of Harlem Pose
Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series !Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series
valign="top" \| Sterling K. Brown – This Is Us Damson Idris – Snowfall Billy Porter – Pose Kofi Siriboe – Queen Sugar Forest Whitaker – Godfather of Harlem \| valign="top" \| Angela Bassett – 9-1-1 Dawn-Lyen Gardner – Queen Sugar Octavia Spencer – Truth Be Told Queen Latifah – The Equalizer Rutina Wesley – Queen Sugar
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series !Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
valign="top" \| Cliff "Method Man" Smith – Power Book II: Ghost Alex Hibbert – The Chi Daniel Ezra – All American Giancarlo Esposito – Godfather of Harlem Joe Morton – Our Kind of People \| valign="top" \| Mary J. Blige – Power Book II: Ghost Alfre Woodard – SEE Bianca Lawson – Queen Sugar Chandra Wilson – Grey's Anatomy Susan Kelechi Watson – This is Us
Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series !Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series
valign="top" \| *Barry Jenkins – The Underground Railroad: "Indiana Winter"* Anthony Hemingway – Genius: Aretha: "Respect" Carl Seaton – Snowfall: – "Fight or Flight" Carl Seaton – Godfather of Harlem: – "The Bonanno Split" Hanelle Culpepper – True Story: "Like Cain Did Abel" \| valign="top" \| *Davita Scarlett – The Good Fight: "And the Firm Had Two Partners"* Aurin Squire – Evil: "C Is for Cop" Malcolm Spellman – The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: "New World Order" Nkechi Okoro Carroll – All American: "Homecoming" Steven Canals, Janet Mock, Our Lady J, Brad Falchuk, Ryan Murphy – Pose: "Series Finale"

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! colspan="2" style="width=50%" | Outstanding Drama Series

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Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series

!Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series

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Sterling K. Brown – This Is Us
Damson Idris – Snowfall
Billy Porter – Pose
Kofi Siriboe – Queen Sugar
Forest Whitaker – Godfather of Harlem

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Angela Bassett – 9-1-1
Dawn-Lyen Gardner – Queen Sugar
Octavia Spencer – Truth Be Told
Queen Latifah – The Equalizer
Rutina Wesley – Queen Sugar

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

!Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

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Cliff "Method Man" Smith – Power Book II: Ghost
Alex Hibbert – The Chi
Daniel Ezra – All American
Giancarlo Esposito – Godfather of Harlem
Joe Morton – Our Kind of People

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Mary J. Blige – Power Book II: Ghost
Alfre Woodard – SEE
Bianca Lawson – Queen Sugar
Chandra Wilson – Grey's Anatomy
Susan Kelechi Watson – This is Us

Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series

!Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series

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Barry Jenkins – The Underground Railroad: "Indiana Winter"
Anthony Hemingway – Genius: Aretha: "Respect"
Carl Seaton – Snowfall: – "Fight or Flight"
Carl Seaton – Godfather of Harlem: – "The Bonanno Split"
Hanelle Culpepper – True Story: "Like Cain Did Abel"

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Davita Scarlett – The Good Fight: "And the Firm Had Two Partners"
Aurin Squire – Evil: "C Is for Cop"
Malcolm Spellman – The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: "New World Order"
Nkechi Okoro Carroll – All American: "Homecoming"
Steven Canals, Janet Mock, Our Lady J, Brad Falchuk, Ryan Murphy – Pose: "Series Finale"

= Comedy =

class="wikitable" style="width=72%" ! colspan="2" style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Comedy Series
colspan="2" valign="top" \| *Insecure* Black-ish Harlem Run the World The Upshaws
Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series !Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series
valign="top" \| Anthony Anderson – black-ish Cedric the Entertainer – The Neighborhood Don Cheadle – Black Monday Elisha 'EJ' Williams – The Wonder Years Jay Ellis – Insecure \| valign="top" \| Issa Rae – Insecure Loretta Devine – Family Reunion Regina Hall – Black Monday Tracee Ellis Ross – Black-ish Yvonne Orji – Insecure
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series !Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
valign="top" \| Deon Cole – Black-ish Andre Braugher – Brooklyn Nine-Nine Kenan Thompson – Saturday Night Live Kendrick Sampson – Insecure Laurence Fishburne – Black-ish \| valign="top" \| Natasha Rothwell – Insecure Amanda Seales – Insecure Jenifer Lewis – Black-ish Marsai Martin – Black-ish Wanda Sykes – The Upshaws
Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series !Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series
valign="top" \| *Bashir Salahuddin, Diallo Riddle – South Side: "Tornado"* Melina Matsoukas – Insecure: "Reunited, Okay?!" Neema Barnette – Harlem: "Once Upon A Time in Harlem" Prentice Penny – Insecure: "Everything's Gonna Be, Okay?!" Tiffani Johnson – Black Monday: "Eight!" \| valign="top" \| *Issa Rae – Insecure: "Everything's Gonna Be, Okay?!"* Ashley Nicole Black – Ted Lasso: "Do the Right-est Thing" Leann Bowen – Ted Lasso: "Lavender" Maya Erskine – PEN15: "Blue in Green" Temi Wilkey – Sex Education: "Episode #3.6"

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! colspan="2" style="width=50%" |Outstanding Comedy Series

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Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series

!Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series

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Anthony Anderson – black-ish
Cedric the Entertainer – The Neighborhood
Don Cheadle – Black Monday
Elisha 'EJ' Williams – The Wonder Years
Jay Ellis – Insecure

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Issa Rae – Insecure
Loretta Devine – Family Reunion
Regina Hall – Black Monday
Tracee Ellis Ross – Black-ish
Yvonne Orji – Insecure

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

!Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

valign="top" |

| valign="top" |

Natasha Rothwell – Insecure
Amanda Seales – Insecure
Jenifer Lewis – Black-ish
Marsai Martin – Black-ish
Wanda Sykes – The Upshaws

Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series

!Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series

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Bashir Salahuddin, Diallo Riddle – South Side: "Tornado"
Melina Matsoukas – Insecure: "Reunited, Okay?!"
Neema Barnette – Harlem: "Once Upon A Time in Harlem"
Prentice Penny – Insecure: "Everything's Gonna Be, Okay?!"
Tiffani Johnson – Black Monday: "Eight!"

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Issa Rae – Insecure: "Everything's Gonna Be, Okay?!"
Ashley Nicole Black – Ted Lasso: "Do the Right-est Thing"
Leann Bowen – Ted Lasso: "Lavender"
Maya Erskine – PEN15: "Blue in Green"
Temi Wilkey – Sex Education: "Episode #3.6"

= Television Movie, Limited-Series or Dramatic Special =

class="wikitable" style="width=72%" ! colspan="2" style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
colspan="2" valign="top" \| *Colin in Black & White* Genius: Aretha Love Life Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia The Underground Railroad
Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special !Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
valign="top" \| Kevin Hart – True Story Anthony Mackie – Solos Jaden Michael – Colin in Black & White Wesley Snipes – True Story William Jackson Harper – Love Life \| valign="top" \| Taraji P. Henson – Annie Live! Betty Gabriel – Clickbait Cynthia Erivo – Genius: Aretha Danielle Brooks – Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia Jodie Turner-Smith – Anne Boleyn
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Television Movie, Limited-Series or Dramatic Special !Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Television Movie, Limited-Series or Dramatic Special
valign="top" \| Courtney B. Vance – Genius: Aretha Keith David – Black as Night Tituss Burgess – Annie Live! Will Catlett – True Story William Jackson Harper – The Underground Railroad \| valign="top" \| Regina Hall – Nine Perfect Strangers Anika Noni Rose – Maid Natasha Rothwell – The White Lotus Pauletta Washington – Genius: Aretha Sheila Atim – The Underground Railroad
Outstanding Directing in a Television Movie or Special !Outstanding Writing in a Television Movie or Special
valign="top" \| Kenny Leon – Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia Jaffar Mahmood – Hot Mess Holiday Mario Van Peebles – Salt-N-Pepa Maritte Lee Go – Black As Night Verónica Rodríguez – Let's Get Merried \| valign="top" \| Abdul Williams – Salt-N-Pepa Mario Miscione, Marcella Ochoa – Madres Monique N. Matthew – A Holiday in Harlem Sameer Gardezi – Hot Mess Holiday Sherman Payne – Black as Night

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! colspan="2" style="width=50%" |Outstanding Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special

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Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special

!Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special

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Kevin Hart – True Story
Anthony Mackie – Solos
Jaden Michael – Colin in Black & White
Wesley Snipes – True Story
William Jackson Harper – Love Life

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Taraji P. Henson – Annie Live!
Betty Gabriel – Clickbait
Cynthia Erivo – Genius: Aretha
Danielle Brooks – Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia
Jodie Turner-Smith – Anne Boleyn

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Television Movie, Limited-Series or Dramatic Special

!Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Television Movie, Limited-Series or Dramatic Special

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Courtney B. Vance – Genius: Aretha
Keith David – Black as Night
Tituss Burgess – Annie Live!
Will Catlett – True Story
William Jackson Harper – The Underground Railroad

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Regina Hall – Nine Perfect Strangers
Anika Noni Rose – Maid
Natasha Rothwell – The White Lotus
Pauletta Washington – Genius: Aretha
Sheila Atim – The Underground Railroad

Outstanding Directing in a Television Movie or Special

!Outstanding Writing in a Television Movie or Special

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Kenny Leon – Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia
Jaffar Mahmood – Hot Mess Holiday
Mario Van Peebles – Salt-N-Pepa
Maritte Lee Go – Black As Night
Verónica Rodríguez – Let's Get Merried

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Abdul Williams – Salt-N-Pepa
Mario Miscione, Marcella Ochoa – Madres
Monique N. Matthew – A Holiday in Harlem
Sameer Gardezi – Hot Mess Holiday
Sherman Payne – Black as Night

= Overall Acting =

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!Outstanding Performance by a Youth (Series, Special, Television Movie or Limited-series)

!Outstanding Guest Actor or Actress in a Television Series

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Miles Brown – Black-ish
Alayah "That Girl Lay Lay" High – That Girl Lay Lay
Celina Smith – Annie Live!
Elisha 'EJ' Williams – The Wonder Years
Eris Baker – This Is Us

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Maya Rudolph – Saturday Night Live
Alani "La La" Anthony – The Chi
Christina Elmore – Insecure
Daniel Kaluuya – Saturday Night Live
Erika Alexander – Run the World

= Reality and Variety =

class="wikitable" style="width=72%" ! style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Talk Series ! style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Reality Program, Reality Competition Series or Game Show
valign="top" \| *Red Table Talk* Desus & Mero Hart to Heart Tamron Hall The Real \| valign="top" \| *Wild 'n Out* Celebrity Family Feud Iyanla: Fix My Life Sweet Life: Los Angeles The Voice
style="width=50%" \|Outstanding News / Information – (Series or Special) ! style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Host in a Talk or News / Information (Series or Special)
valign="top" \| *The ReidOut* Blood on Black Wall Street: The Legacy of the Tulsa Massacre NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt Soul of a Nation Unsung \| valign="top" \| Jada Pinkett Smith, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, Willow Smith – Red Table Talk Joy Reid – The Reidout Daniel "Desus Nice" Baker, Joel "The Kid Mero" Martinez – Desus & Mero Garcelle Beauvais, Adrienne Bailon, Loni Love, Jeannie Mai – The Real LeBron James – The Shop: Uninterrupted
style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Variety Show (Series or Special) ! style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Host in a Reality, Game Show or Variety (Series or Special)
valign="top" \| *The Daily Show with Trevor Noah* A Black Lady Sketch Show BET Awards 2021 Dave Chappelle: The Closer Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 3 \| valign="top" \| Trevor Noah – The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Alfonso Ribeiro – America's Funniest Home Videos Amber Ruffin – The Amber Ruffin Show Cedric the Entertainer – 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards Iyanla Vanzant – Iyanla: Fix My Life

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! style="width=50%" |Outstanding Talk Series

! style="width=50%" |Outstanding Reality Program, Reality Competition Series or Game Show

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Red Table Talk
Desus & Mero
Hart to Heart
Tamron Hall
The Real

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style="width=50%" |Outstanding News / Information – (Series or Special)

! style="width=50%" |Outstanding Host in a Talk or News / Information (Series or Special)

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The ReidOut
Blood on Black Wall Street: The Legacy of the Tulsa Massacre
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt
Soul of a Nation
Unsung

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Jada Pinkett Smith, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, Willow Smith – Red Table Talk
Joy Reid – The Reidout
Daniel "Desus Nice" Baker, Joel "The Kid Mero" Martinez – Desus & Mero
Garcelle Beauvais, Adrienne Bailon, Loni Love, Jeannie Mai – The Real
LeBron James – The Shop: Uninterrupted

style="width=50%" |Outstanding Variety Show (Series or Special)

! style="width=50%" |Outstanding Host in a Reality, Game Show or Variety (Series or Special)

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Trevor Noah – The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Alfonso Ribeiro – America's Funniest Home Videos
Amber Ruffin – The Amber Ruffin Show
Cedric the Entertainer – 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards
Iyanla Vanzant – Iyanla: Fix My Life

= Other categories =

class="wikitable" style="width=72%" !Outstanding Short-Form Series (Drama or Comedy) !Outstanding Short-Form Series – Reality/Nonfiction
valign="top" \| *Between the Scenes – The Daily Show* Dark Humor Della Mae The Disney Launchpad: Shorts Incubator Two Sides: Unfaithful \| valign="top" \| *Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day* Life By The Horns Memory Builds The Monument Widen the Screen: 8:46 Films Through Our Eyes: Shelter
Outstanding Breakthrough Creative (Television) !Outstanding Children's Program
valign="top" \| Angel Kristi Williams – Colin in Black & White Cierra Glaude – Queen Sugar Deborah Riley Draper – The Legacy of Black Wall Street Halcyon Person – Karma's World Quyen Tran – Maid \| valign="top" \| *Family Reunion* Ada Twist, Scientist Karma's World Raven's Home Waffles + Mochi
Outstanding Animated Series !Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance (Television)
valign="top" \| *We the People* Big Mouth Peanut Headz: Black History Toonz Super Sema Yasuke \| valign="top" \| Cree Summer – Rugrats Angela Bassett – Malika: The Lion Queen Billy Porter – Fairfax Ludacris – Karma's World Keke Palmer – Big Mouth

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!Outstanding Short-Form Series (Drama or Comedy)

!Outstanding Short-Form Series – Reality/Nonfiction

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Between the Scenes – The Daily Show
Dark Humor
Della Mae
The Disney Launchpad: Shorts Incubator
Two Sides: Unfaithful

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Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
Life By The Horns
Memory Builds The Monument
Widen the Screen: 8:46 Films
Through Our Eyes: Shelter

Outstanding Breakthrough Creative (Television)

!Outstanding Children's Program

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Angel Kristi Williams – Colin in Black & White
Cierra Glaude – Queen Sugar
Deborah Riley Draper – The Legacy of Black Wall Street
Halcyon Person – Karma's World
Quyen Tran – Maid

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Outstanding Animated Series

!Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance (Television)

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We the People
Big Mouth
Peanut Headz: Black History Toonz
Super Sema
Yasuke

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Cree Summer – Rugrats
Angela Bassett – Malika: The Lion Queen
Billy Porter – Fairfax
Ludacris – Karma's World
Keke Palmer – Big Mouth

Recording

style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Male Artist ! style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Female Artist
class="wikitable" ! style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Album ! style="width=50%" \|Outstanding New Artist
valign="top" width="50%" \| Heaux Tales – Jazmine Sullivan An Evening with Silk Sonic – Silk Sonic Back of My Mind – H.E.R. Certified Lover Boy – Drake When It's All Said and Done... Take Time – Giveon \| valign="top" width="50%" \| Saweetie Cynthia Erivo Jimmie Allen Tems Zoe Wees
valign="top" width="50%" \| Anthony Hamilton Drake Giveon J. Cole Lil Nas X \| valign="top" width="50%" \| Jazmine Sullivan H.E.R. Ari Lennox Beyoncé Chlöe
style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration (Traditional) ! style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration (Contemporary)
valign="top" width="50%" \| Leave the Door Open – Silk Sonic Superstar – Anthony Hamilton feat. Jennifer Hudson Georgia on my Mind – Chloe x Halle Girl like Me – Jazmine Sullivan feat. H.E.R. Complicated (Remix) – Leela James feat. Anthony Hamilton \| valign="top" width="50%" \| Fye Fye – Tobe Nwigwe feat. Fat Nwigwe Go Crazy (Remix) – Chris Brown feat. Young Thug, Future, Lil Durk and Latto Kiss Me More – Doja Cat feat. SZA Way 2 Sexy – Drake feat. Young Thug and Future Come Through – H.E.R. feat. Chris Brown
style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Music Video/Visual Album ! style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Soundtrack/Compilation Album
valign="top" width="50%" \| Essence – Wizkid feat. Tems Best Friend – Saweetie feat. Doja Cat Fye Fye – Tobe Nwigwe feat. Fat Nwigwe Have Mercy – Chlöe Leave the Door Open – Silk Sonic \| valign="top" width="50%" \| The Harder They Fall Soundtrack – Jay-Z, Jeymes Samuel Coming 2 America Soundtrack – Eddie Murphy, Craig Brewer, Kevin Misher, Randy Spendlove, Jeff Charleston Judas and the Black Messiah Soundtrack – Mark Isham, Craig Harris Respect Soundtrack – Jason Michael Webb, Stephen Bray The United States vs. Billie Holiday Soundtrack – Salaam Remi, Andra Day, Raphael Saadiq, Warren Felder
style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Gospel/Christian Album ! style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Gospel/Christian Song
valign="top" width="50%" \| Overcomer – Tamela Mann Anthems & Glory – Todd Dulaney Believe For It – CeCe Winans Jonny x Mali: Live in L.A. – Jonathan McReynolds, Mali Music Power – Jason McGee, The Choir \| valign="top" width="50%" \| Help Me – Tamela Mann feat. The Fellas Believe For It – CeCe Winans Hold Us Together (Hope Mix) – H.E.R. and Tauren Wells Overcome 2021 – Kirk Franklin Time for Reparations – Sounds of Blackness
style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Jazz Album – Instrumental ! style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Jazz Album – Vocal
valign="top" width="50%" \| Sounds from the Ancestors – Kenny Garrett Forever...Jaz – Jazmin Ghent Love Languages – Nathan Mitchell Somewhere Different – Brandee Younger The Magic of Now – Orrin Evans \| valign="top" width="50%" \| Generations – The Baylor Project Dear Love – Jazzmeia Horn and Her Noble Force Ledisi Sings Nina – Ledisi Let There Be Love – Freda Payne SALSWING! – Rubén Blades y Roberto Delgado & Orquesta
style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Soul/R&B Song ! style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Hip Hop/Rap Song
valign="top" width="50%" \| Pick Up Your Feelings – Jazmine Sullivan Damage – H.E.R. Be Alive – Beyoncé Have Mercy – Chlöe Leave the Door Open – Silk Sonic \| valign="top" width="50%" \| Fye Fye – Tobe Nwigwe feat. Fat Nwigwe Best Friend – Saweetie feat. Doja Cat Industry Baby – Lil Nas X feat. Jack Harlow My Life – J. Cole, 21 Savage, Morray Way 2 Sexy – Drake
colspan="2" style="width=50%" \|Outstanding International Song
colspan="2" valign="top" width="50%" \| Essence – Wizkid feat. Tems and Justin Bieber Peru – Fireboy DML Somebody's Son – Tiwa Savage feat. Brandy Touch It – KiDi Understand – Omah Lay

Podcast and social media

Outstanding Society and Culture Podcast !Outstanding Arts and Entertainment Podcast
class="wikitable" style="width=72%" !Outstanding News and Information Podcast !Outstanding Lifestyle/Self-Help Podcast
valign="top" \| *Blindspot: Tulsa Burning* #SundayCivics After the Uprising: The Death of Danyé Dion Jones Into America Un(re)solved \| valign="top" \| Two Funny Mamas: Sherri Shepherd & Kym Whitley – Sherri Shepherd, Kym Whitley Checking in with Michelle Williams – Michelle Williams The Homecoming Podcast with Dr. Thema – Thema Bryant The SonRise Project Podcast – Kelli Richardson Lawson Under Construction w/ Tamar Braxton – Tamar Braxton
valign="top" \| *Jemele Hill is Unbothered* Beyond the Scenes – The Daily Show Professional Troublemaker Questlove Supreme Super Soul Podcast \| valign="top" \| *Jemele Hill is Unbothered* Club Shay Shay podcast with Shannon Sharpe Questlove Supreme Reasonably Shady The History of Sketch Comedy with Keegan-Michael Key
colspan="2" \|Social Media Personality of the Year
colspan="2" valign="top" \| Eunique Jones Gibson Kevin Frederick Laron Hines Lanae Vanee Terrell Grice RackaRacka

Literary

class="wikitable" ! style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction ! style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction
valign="top" width="50%" \| Long Division – Kiese Laymon Harlem Shuffle – Colson Whitehead Libertie – Kaitlyn Greenidge The Man Who Lived Underground – Richard Wright The Perishing – Natashia Deón \| valign="top" width="50%" \| The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story – Nikole Hannah-Jones Dance Theatre of Harlem – Judy Tyrus, Paul Novosel Just As I Am – Cicely Tyson My Remarkable Journey – Katherine Johnson Renegades: Born in the USA – Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen
style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author ! style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography
valign="top" width="50%" \| Just As I Am – Cicely Tyson My Remarkable Journey – Katherine Johnson Other Black Girl: A Novel – Zakiya Dalila Harris The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois – Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts – Rebecca Hall \| valign="top" width="50%" \| Will – Will Smith Just As I Am – Cicely Tyson Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement – Tarana Burke Unprotected: A Memoir – Billy Porter Until I Am Free – Keisha N. Blain
style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Literary Work – Instructional ! style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry
valign="top" width="50%" \| Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business) – Tabitha Brown Diversity Is Not Enough: A Roadmap to Recruit, Develop and Promote Black Leaders in America – Keith Wyche Permission to Dream – Chris Gardner Teaching Black History to White People – Leonard N. Moore The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations – Robert Livingston \| valign="top" width="50%" \| Perfect Black – Crystal Wilkinson Playlist for the Apocalypse – Rita Dove Such Color: New and Selected Poems – Tracy K. Smith The Wild Fox of Yemen – Threa Almontaser What Water Knows: Poems – Jacqueline Jones LaMon
style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Literary Work – Children ! style="width=50%" \|Outstanding Literary Work – Youth/Teens
valign="top" width="50%" \| Stacey's Extraordinary Words – Stacey Abrams, Kit Thomas Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy – Misty Copeland Change Sings – Amanda Gorman, Loren Long Time for Bed, Old House – Janet Costa Bates, A.G. Ford When Langston Dances – Kaija Langley, Keith Mallett \| valign="top" width="50%" \| Ace of Spades – Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé Happily Ever Afters – Elise Bryant The Cost of Knowing – Brittney Morris When You Look Like Us – Pamela N. Harris Wings of Ebony – J. Elle

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! style="width=50%" |Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction

! style="width=50%" |Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction

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Long Division – Kiese Laymon
Harlem Shuffle – Colson Whitehead
Libertie – Kaitlyn Greenidge
The Man Who Lived Underground – Richard Wright
The Perishing – Natashia Deón

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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story – Nikole Hannah-Jones
Dance Theatre of Harlem – Judy Tyrus, Paul Novosel
Just As I Am – Cicely Tyson
My Remarkable Journey – Katherine Johnson
Renegades: Born in the USA – Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen

style="width=50%" |Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author

! style="width=50%" |Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography

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Just As I Am – Cicely Tyson
My Remarkable Journey – Katherine Johnson
Other Black Girl: A Novel – Zakiya Dalila Harris
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois – Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts – Rebecca Hall

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Will – Will Smith
Just As I Am – Cicely Tyson
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement – Tarana Burke
Unprotected: A Memoir – Billy Porter
Until I Am Free – Keisha N. Blain

style="width=50%" |Outstanding Literary Work – Instructional

! style="width=50%" |Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry

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Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business) – Tabitha Brown
Diversity Is Not Enough: A Roadmap to Recruit, Develop and Promote Black Leaders in America – Keith Wyche
Permission to Dream – Chris Gardner
Teaching Black History to White People – Leonard N. Moore
The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations – Robert Livingston

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Perfect Black – Crystal Wilkinson
Playlist for the Apocalypse – Rita Dove
Such Color: New and Selected Poems – Tracy K. Smith
The Wild Fox of Yemen – Threa Almontaser
What Water Knows: Poems – Jacqueline Jones LaMon

style="width=50%" |Outstanding Literary Work – Children

! style="width=50%" |Outstanding Literary Work – Youth/Teens

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Stacey's Extraordinary Words – Stacey Abrams, Kit Thomas
Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy – Misty Copeland
Change Sings – Amanda Gorman, Loren Long
Time for Bed, Old House – Janet Costa Bates, A.G. Ford
When Langston Dances – Kaija Langley, Keith Mallett

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Ace of Spades – Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Happily Ever Afters – Elise Bryant
The Cost of Knowing – Brittney Morris
When You Look Like Us – Pamela N. Harris
Wings of Ebony – J. Elle

References

External links

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