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February 20, 2008

2008 NAACP Image Awards

The NAACP Image Awards honor the "the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts." The 2008 awards were presented on February 14, 2008. A complete list of winners is available on the NAACP website.

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work

Fiction
Walter Mosley. Blonde Faith
Easy Rawlins comes home from work and finds more trouble on his doorstep in a day than most men encounter in a lifetime. A friend has left his daughter at Easy's house without so much as a note. Clearly this friend, Christmas Black, a veteran of Vietnam, fears for his life and his daughter's.

Nonfiction
Don Cheadle & John Prendergast. Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond

Children's
Sue Stauffacher. Nothing But Trouble: The Story of Althea Gibson
A biography of Althea Gibson, the first black tennis player to ever compete in what is now known as the U.S. Open, and in the Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, England.

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture
The Great Debaters - In Theaters

Posted by Grace at February 20, 2008 12:08 PM

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