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 NAACP Image Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The NAACP Image Award is an award presented annually by the NAACP to honor the top African-Americans in film, television, music, and literature.
Similar to other awards, like the Oscars and the Grammys, the 35 categories of Image Awards are voted on by members of the NAACP.
There are also honorary awards, including the President's Award, the Chairman's Award, Entertainer of the Year and The Image Award Hall of Fame.
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 Condoleezza Rice accepts NAACP Image Award
Image Awards are primarily given to entertainers, but also recognize people who have advanced the cause of minorities through leadership or example.
At the July convention, NAACP board chairman Julian Bond accused the president of being a puppet of the conservative "Taliban wing of the Republican Party." Chief White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said Bond went too far and his statement was "another reminder about why the tone in Washington needs to be changed."
The friendly reception she received was a contrast to the acrimony that built between the White House and the NAACP last summer.
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 LL Cool J Online The Greatest Of All Times
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Rap Artist, Outstanding Male Artist and Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series (In The House) 1998 Mr.
LL include: the Patrick Lippard Award by Rock The Vote, 3 NAACP Image Awards and "Favorite Hero" award from NARAS.
A seasoned entertainer at the tender age of 28, his lengthy list of accomplishments boggle the mind: two-time Grammy Award winning rapper, star of a hit television series, feature film actor, trusted advertising pitchman, bestselling author, company chairman, humanitarian and devoted husband and father.
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 redandblack.com - Jamie Foxx continues 'Ray' trophy spree with NAACP Image Award
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., received the Chairman's Award, while the Vanguard Award went to pop star Prince.
"Ray" was nominated for a leading seven awards, including outstanding motion picture and outstanding actor in a motion picture for Foxx, who received the best-actor Oscar at last month's Academy Awards.
Talk show host Oprah Winfrey also was inducted into the NAACP Hall of Fame.
www.redandblack.com /vnews/display.v/ART/2005/03/25/42439c6ad5173

  
 NAACP Image Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grammys, the 35 categories of Image Awards are voted on by members of the NAACP.
There are also honorary awards, including the President's Award, the Chairman's Award, Entertainer of the Year and The Image Award Hall of Fame.
Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children's Series or Special
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 NAACP Image Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grammys, the 35 categories of Image Awards are voted on by members of the NAACP.
There are also honorary awards, including the President's Award, the Chairman's Award, Entertainer of the Year and The Image Award Hall of Fame.
The NAACP Image Award is an award presented annually by the NAACP to honor the top African-Americans in
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/NAACP_Image_Award

  
 'Soul Food' sweeps Image Awards
The 29th Annual NAACP Image Awards, held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on Feb. 14, was a dazzling tribute to the best in black entertainment.
The guiding mission of the NAACP Image Awards was to honor projects and individuals of all races who have helped promote "positive images of people of color." Past award winners have included Maya Angelou, Garth Brooks, Oprah Winfrey and Jackie Chan.
Other distinguished award winners were Alexis M. Herman, the U.S. Secretary of labor, who won the President's Award; John E. Williams, corporate relations vice president of Northwest Airlines, who won the Corporate Award; and Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, who won the Chairman's Award.
www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V133/N26/01-image.26d.html   (601 words)

  
 NAACP Image Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The NAACP Image Award is an award presented annually by the NAACP to honor the top African-Americans in film, television, music, and literature.
Similar to other awards, like the Oscars and the Grammys, the 35 categories of Image Awards are voted on by members of the NAACP.
There are also honorary awards, including the President's Award, the Chairman's Award, Entertainer of the Year and The Image Award Hall of Fame.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/NAACP_Image_Award   (154 words)

  
 NAACP Image Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The NAACP Image Award is an award presented annually by the NAACP to honor the top African-Americans in film, television, music, and literature.
Similar to other awards, like the Oscars and the Grammys, the 35 categories of Image Awards are voted on by members of the NAACP.
There are also honorary awards, including the President's Award, the Chairman's Award, Entertainer of the Year and The Image Award Hall of Fame.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/NAACP_Image_Award   (154 words)

  
 3/29/05, 2005 Honorary Degree Recipients - Almanac, Vol. 51, No. 26
His life and career were chronicled in the critically acclaimed 1990 film Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones and he was awarded the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Artist for the recording Q: The Musical Biography of Quincy Jones.
He is the artist with the single greatest number of Grammy honors, with a total of 79 nominations and 27 awards, and has also received an Emmy Award, seven Oscar nominations, and the 1995 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
His entrepreneurial and humanitarian endeavors have brought him many awards including the Distinguished Vanguard Award for Leadership from the National Cable and Telecommunications Association; induction into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame; the Cable Television Hall of Fame Award; and the Walter Kaitz Foundation Award for contributing to the cable industry’s diversity efforts.
www.upenn.edu /almanac/volumes/v51/n26/hdr_2005.html   (154 words)

  
 'Soul Food' sweeps Image Awards
The 29th Annual NAACP Image Awards, held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on Feb. 14, was a dazzling tribute to the best in black entertainment.
The guiding mission of the NAACP Image Awards was to honor projects and individuals of all races who have helped promote "positive images of people of color." Past award winners have included Maya Angelou, Garth Brooks, Oprah Winfrey and Jackie Chan.
Other distinguished award winners were Alexis M. Herman, the U.S. Secretary of labor, who won the President's Award; John E. Williams, corporate relations vice president of Northwest Airlines, who won the Corporate Award; and Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, who won the Chairman's Award.
www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V133/N26/01-image.26d.html   (601 words)

  
 NAACP News Printable Version: 33RD NAACP Image Awards Nominations Announced - December 11, 2001
She has won four NAACP Image Awards, most recently in 1998 for the Emmy award winning, four-hour mini-series "The Temptations." She was also nominated for an Academy Award for co-writing the screenplay "Lady Sings the Blues." This year, more than 1500 entries were submitted for nomination consideration.
The first NAACP Image Awards were presented in 1962, and over the nearly four decades since, the event has grown from a small gathering of African Americans working in Hollywood to a nationally televised primetime event.
President of Entertainment for FOX Broadcasting Company, Gail Berman, said of FOX's association with the Image Awards, "We are to once again join with the NAACP to bring the Image Awards to the homes of Americans.
www.naacp.org /news/2001/2001-12-11-print.html   (645 words)

  
 New Crisis, The: 34th NAACP Image Awards celebration and "Image-a-Nation", The
The 34th NAACP Image Awards will be taped March 8th at the Universal Amphitheater in Universal City, Calif. The show, airing for the eighth consecutive year on Fox, will be televised on March 13 at 8 p.m.
Both are among the nominees for the 34th NAACP Image Awards, announced during a Los Angeles press conference on Dec. 5.
Image-a-Nation is about imagining a world where diverse people all live in harmony, elaborates Image Awards Chairman Charles Whitehead, where all the things that hampered African Americans in the past were in the past, were nonexistent.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3812/is_200301/ai_n9214166   (964 words)

  
 NAACP Image Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The NAACP Image Award is an award presented annually by the NAACP to honor the top African-Americans in film, television, music, and literature.
Similar to other awards, like the Oscars and the Grammys, the 35 categories of Image Awards are voted on by members of the NAACP.
There are also honorary awards, including the President's Award, the Chairman's Award, Entertainer of the Year and The Image Award Hall of Fame.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/NAACP_Image_Award   (154 words)

  
 The NAACP Image Awards Takes Progress to the Next Level for the New Millennium!
According to the Chairman of the NAACP Image Awards, Charles Whitehead, "The NAACP will continue to be at the forefront of this struggle.  It is our journey as a people, and the NAACP's mission as an organization, to celebrate our culture and talent.
Nationwide is the title sponsor for the 32nd NAACP Image Awards.  United Airlines returns as the official carrier, and other sponsors include DaimlerChrysler, Blockbuster Entertainment, Northwest Airlines, General Motors, Denny's, Bank of America, Disney, and Sprint.
LOS ANGELES (Feb. 2, 2001) In the spirit of this year's 32nd NAACP Image Awards theme, "A Journey of Excellence," the NAACP celebrates its progress during the 20th century, and pays tribute to individuals that support positive change for African Americans through film, television, literature, recording, and corporations.
www.exodusnews.com /entertainment/Entertain074.htm   (245 words)

  
 MSN Video and Tina Marie TV Will Offer Interviews From NAACP Image Awards: Interviews With Celebrities Will Be Available Free on MSN Video Beginning Tuesday, March 22
The NAACP Image Awards will honor Oprah Winfrey, who will receive the Hall of Fame Award; Prince, who will receive the Vanguard Award; and Barack Obama, who will receive the Chairman’s Award.
The NAACP Image Awards, taped March 19 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, celebrate the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in literature, television, motion pictures and the performing arts.
The NAACP Image Awards celebrate the achievements and performances of people of color in the arts as well as individuals and groups who promote social justice.
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 NAACP Image Awards, Winners, Nominees, TV Schedule
Watch for the NAACP Image Awards telecast to be aired on March 25, 2005 at 8PM EST on FOX Television.
Among the top contenders for this year's NAACP Image Awards, given out on March 19, 2005, were Jamie Foxx for his Oscar Award winning performance in Ray and RandB superstar Usher, who was nominated for a total of five Image Awards including outstanding song for Yeah!
Additional honorees on the big night - hosted by actor Chris Tucker from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in LA - included U.S. Senator Barack Obama who received the Chairman's Award, and pop singer and songwriter, Prince, who was given the Vanguard Award.
www.chiff.com /pop-culture/naacp-image-awards.htm   (407 words)

  
 'Ray' garners 4 NAACP Image Awards
In addition to Prince, special honorees included Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., who received the Chairman's Award, and megamogul and humanitarian Oprah Winfrey, who was inducted into the NAACP Hall of Fame.
"Ray" hit all the right notes at the 36th NAACP Image Awards on Saturday, as the Ray Charles biopic nabbed four awards, including outstanding motion picture and yet another best actor nod for Jamie Foxx.
And for the first time, the NAACP bestowed an award to outstanding independent or foreign film.
www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/awards/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000846796   (480 words)

  
 Robert L. Johnson Profile
Johnson recently was ranked No. 1 on Sports Illustrated Magazine’s “101 Most Influential Minorities in Sports.” He also has received Princeton’s Distinguished Alumni Award, been inducted into Broadcasting and Cable Magazine's Hall of Fame; received the NAACP’s Image Award and the National Women’s Political Caucus’ Good Guys Award.
A year later, Viacom bought BET for $3 billion in stock, of which $1.5 billion went to Johnson, who was retained under a multi-year contract as the company's chairman and CEO.
Johnson saw this need, and in 1979 he left NCTA, borrowed $15,000 from some close friends and launched Black Entertainment Television, the first cable television network aimed at African Americans.
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 Dave Matthews Band News: Briefly: Dave Matthews Band, OutKast, Faith Evans, Little Richard, Courtney Love >> liveDaily
Dave Matthews Band (music) will be in Los Angeles to receive the Chairman's Award at the NAACP's Image Awards on March 6.
The NAACP is recognizing the band's work on social and environmental causes.
R&B singer Faith Evans (music) and her husband, Todd Russaw, reportedly were arrested last week near Atlanta on charges of marijuana and cocaine possession.
www.livedaily.com /news/6048.html   (576 words)

  
 Archive 3
She was appearing in Melvin Van Peebles' play ``Don't Play Us Cheap'' when she won the role as Florida in ``Maude.'' In 1990, she became the first woman to receive the NAACP Chairman's Civil Rights Leadership Award for helping raise the image of blacks.
But more than anything it was The Streak, during the magical summer of '41, that riveted a country fresh from the Depression and elevated him from baseball star to national celebrity.
After high school, she followed her actress sister to New York and landed Broadway roles.
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 Archive 3
She was appearing in Melvin Van Peebles' play ``Don't Play Us Cheap'' when she won the role as Florida in ``Maude.'' In 1990, she became the first woman to receive the NAACP Chairman's Civil Rights Leadership Award for helping raise the image of blacks.
Malcolm McDowell, who starred in ''A Clockwork Orange,'' issued a statement through his publicist calling Kubrick ''a heavyweight of my life.'' ''He was the last great director of that era.
After high school, she followed her actress sister to New York and landed Broadway roles.
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