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[]
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
1990s[]
Year | Book | Author | Ref |
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1994 | |||
By Any Means Necessary: The Trials and Tribulations of the Making of 'Malcolm X' | Spike Lee and Ralph Wiley | [1] | |
1996 | |||
When We Were Colored | Clifton Taulbert | [2] | |
1999 | |||
With Ossie & Ruby: In This Life Together | Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee | [3] |
2000s[]
Year | Book | Author | Ref |
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2002 | |||
Sally Hemmings, An American Scandal | Tina Andrews | [4] | |
2003 | |||
Keeping the Faith | Tavis Smiley | [5] | |
A Song Flung Up to Heaven | Maya Angelou | ||
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 | [6] | |
2005 | |||
Hallelujah! The Welcome Table | Maya Angelou | [7] | |
2006 | |||
Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? | Michael Eric Dyson | [8] | |
Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir | Stanley Williams | ||
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 | [9] | |
Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster | Michael Eric Dyson | ||
The Covenant with Black America | Tavis Smiley | ||
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 | [10] | |
An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President | Randall Robinson | ||
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 | [11] |
2010s[]
Year | Book | Author | Ref |
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2010 | |||
In Search of Our Roots | Henry Louis Gates Jr. | [12] | |
Freedom in My Heart: Voices From the United States National Slavery Museum | Cynthia Carter | ||
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 | [13] | |
Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority | Tom Burrell | ||
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 | [14] | |
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America | Melissa Harris-Perry | ||
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 | [15] | |
Fraternity | Diane Brady | ||
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 | [16] | |
Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations: 5,000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs from Voices Around the World | Retha Powers | ||
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 | [17] | |
Bad Feminist | Roxane Gay | ||
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 | [18] | |
50 Billion Dollar Boss: African American Women Sharing Stories of Success in Entrepreneurship and Leadership | Kathey Porter and Andrea Hoffman | ||
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 | [19] | |
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul | Eddie S. Glaude | ||
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) | [20] | |
Black Detroit – A People’s History of Self-Determination | Herb Boyd | ||
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 (Author), Yolanda Caraway (Author), Leah D. Daughtry (Author), Minyon Moore (Author), Veronica Chambers | [21] | |
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
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 (Author), Lara Love Hardin |
2020s[]
Year | Book | Author | Ref |
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2020 | |||
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations | Toni Morrison | [22] | |
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons | Imani Perry | ||
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 | [23] | |
A Black Women's History of the United States | Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross | ||
Driving While Black | Gretchen Sorin | ||
Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America | Michael Eric Dyson | ||
We're Better Than This | Elijah Cummings |
Multiple wins and nominations[]
Wins[]
- 2 wins
Nominations[]
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References[]
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- ^ "1999 Image Award Winners". Infoplease. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
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- ^ "2008 Image Award Nominees". Awards and Winners. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
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- ^ "2011 Image Award Winners". Awards and Winners. Archived from the original on August 16, 2016. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
- ^ Allin, Olivia. "2012 Image Winners". ABC7. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
- ^ Couch, Aaron (February 1, 2013). "2013 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
- ^ Couch, Aaron; Washington, Arlene (February 22, 2014). "2014 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
- ^ Washington, Arlene (February 6, 2015). "2015 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
- ^ "2016 Image Winners". Variety. 6 February 2016. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
- ^ Lewis, Hilary; Washington, Arlene (February 10, 2017). "2017 Image Award Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
- ^ "NAACP Image Awards: Full List of Winners". The Hollywood Reporter (published 2018). 14 January 2018. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Nakamura, Reid (2019-03-31). "NAACP Image Awards 2019: The Complete Winners List". TheWrap. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
- ^ "NAACP Image Awards: Lizzo Named Entertainer of the Year; 'Just Mercy,' 'Black-ish' Among Top Winners". 22 February 2020.
- ^ "2021 Nominees". NAACP Image Awards. Retrieved April 6, 2021.
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