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
1990s
2000s
2010s
Award winners, 2010-2019[13]
Year
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Book
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Author
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Result
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Ref.
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2010
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In Search of Our Roots
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Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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Winner
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[14]
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Freedom in My Heart: Voices From the United States National Slavery Museum
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Cynthia Carter
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Finalist
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[15]
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Our Choice
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Al Gore
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Brain Surgeon: A Doctor's Inspiring Encounters With Mortality and Miracles
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Arnold Mann and Keith Black
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Family Affair: What It Means to Be African American Today
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Gil L. Robertson
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2011
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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Michelle Alexander
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Winner
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[16]
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Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority
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Tom Burrell
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Finalist
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Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts of Women in SNCC
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Faith S. Holsaert
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Surviving and Thriving 365 Days in Black Economic History
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Julianne Malveaux
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The History of White People
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Nell Irvin Painter
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2012
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The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in Its Place
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Hill Harper
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Winner
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[17]
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
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Melissa Harris-Perry
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Finalist
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[17]
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Super Rich
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Russell Simmons
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The Cosmopolitan Canopy
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Elijah Anderson
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Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now
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Touré
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2013
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The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court
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Jeffrey Toobin
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Winner
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[18]
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Fraternity
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Diane Brady
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Finalist
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[18][19]
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Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation
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Deborah Davis
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Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman's Quest for Social Justice in America, from the Courtroom to the Kill Zones
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Connie Rice
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The Courage to Hope
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Shirley Sherrod
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2014
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Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
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Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer
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Winner
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[20]
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Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations: 5,000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs from Voices Around the World
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Retha Powers
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Finalist
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[20]
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High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society
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Carl Hart
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Letters to an Incarcerated Brother: Encouragement, Hope, and Healing for Inmates and Their Loved Ones
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Hill Harper
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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Donald Yacovone
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2015
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
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Bryan Stevenson
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Winner
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[21]
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Bad Feminist
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Roxane Gay
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Finalist
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[21]
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Place Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America
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Sheryll Cashin
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Who We Be: The Colorization of America
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Jeff Chang
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2016
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Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga
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Pamela Newkirk
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Winner
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[22]
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50 Billion Dollar Boss: African American Women Sharing Stories of Success in Entrepreneurship and Leadership
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Kathey Porter and Andrea Hoffman
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Finalist
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[22]
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Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
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Jill Leovy
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Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America
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Wil Haygood
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The Light of the World
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Elizabeth Alexander
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2017
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Hidden Figures
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Margot Lee Shetterly
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Winner
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[23]
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Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
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Eddie S. Glaude
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Finalist
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[23]
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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Ibram X. Kendi
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Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld
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2018
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Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies
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Dick Gregory (posthumous)
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Winner
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[24]
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Black Detroit – A People’s History of Self-Determination
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Herb Boyd
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Finalist
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[24]
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Chokehold: Policing Black Men
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Paul Butler
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The President's Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas
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Adrian Miller
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We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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2019
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics
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Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah D. Daughtry, Minyon Moore, Veronica Chambers
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Winner
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[25]
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Finalist
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[25]
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Black Girls Rock! Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth
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Beverly Bond
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May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem
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Imani Perry
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
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Anthony Ray Hinton and Lara Love Hardin
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2020s
Award winners, 2020-present[13]
Year
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Book
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Author
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Result
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Ref.
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2020
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The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
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Toni Morrison
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Winner
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[26]
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Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
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Imani Perry
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Finalist
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[26]
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STONY THE ROAD: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
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Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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The Yellow House
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Sarah M. Broom
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What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essay
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Damon Young
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2021
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A Promised Land
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Barack Obama
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Winner
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[27]
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A Black Women's History of the United States
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Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
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Finalist
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[28]
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Driving While Black
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Gretchen Sorin
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Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America
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Michael Eric Dyson
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We're Better Than This
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Elijah Cummings
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2022
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
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Nikole Hannah-Jones
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Winner
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[29][30]
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Dance Theatre of Harlem
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Judy Tyrus and Paul Novosel
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Finalist
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[30]
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Just As I Am
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Cicely Tyson
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My Remarkable Journey
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Katherine Johnson
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Renegades: Born in the USA
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Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen
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2023
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Finding Me
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Viola Davis
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Winner
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[31]
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Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
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Cody Keenan
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Finalist
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[32]
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Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
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Linda Villarosa
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Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Andrew S. Curran
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Requiem for the Massacre: A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
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RJ Young
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2024
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The New Brownies’ Book
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Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer
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Winner
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[33]
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Black AF History: The Un–Whitewashed Story of America
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Michael Harriot
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Finalist
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[34]
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BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art
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Zaria Ware
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Iconic Home: Interiors, Advice, and Stories from 50 Amazing Black Designers
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Black Interior Designers and June Reese
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The Art of Ruth E. Carter
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Ruth E. Carter
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Multiple wins and nominations
Wins
- 2 wins
Nominations
- 5 nominations
- 3 nominations
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- 2 nominations
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References
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1990s |
- By Any Means Necessary: The Trials and Tribulations of the Making of 'Malcolm X – Spike Lee and Ralph Wiley (1993)
- No Award (1994)
- When We Were Colored – Clifton Taulbert (1995)
- No Award (1996)
- No Award (1997)
- With Ossie & Ruby: In This Life Together – Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee (1998)
- No Award (1999)
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