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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]
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
1990s[edit]
| Year | Book | Author | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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[edit]
| Year | Book | Author | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | |||
| Sally Hemings, 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[edit]
| Year | Book | Author | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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[edit]
| Year | Book | Author | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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[edit]
Wins[edit]
- 2 wins
Nominations[edit]
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References[edit]
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- ^ 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.
- ^ 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". The Hollywood Reporter. 22 February 2020.
- ^ "2021 Nominees". NAACP Image Awards. Retrieved April 6, 2021.