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UPDATED with full list of winners: The 52nd annual NAACP Image Awards wrapped up a week of honors Saturday with a primetime ceremony in which it named the Will Smith-Martin Lawrence reteam Bad Boys for Life its Outstanding Motion Picture of the Year. D-Nice won the organization’s marquee Entertainer of the Year award…

UPDATED: Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP Thursday lashed out at Fox Corp., accusing the media company of exploiting the NFL and its 70% Black players, saying the league's increasingly high subscriber fees help subsidize Fox News programming. The announcement came shortly before Fox announced a new…

Will Packer Media’s Sheila Ducksworth will lead the recently launched CBS/NAACP production partnership, a venture aimed at elevating a diverse range of voices as well as increasing the visibility of Black artists. In her role as president of the venture, Ducksworth will supervise development and production of…

Sobini Films, the production company behind soon-to-released Shields Green biopic Emperor, said it will donate $1 for every digital transaction during the first month of film’s release to the NAACP. Set for a digital release on August 18, via Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, the film is based on the inspiring…

As the film and TV landscape continue to shift in the wake of civic unrest and demand for social change, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and CBS Television are bolstering progress by entering a multi-year partnership to develop and produce scripted, unscripted and documentary…

EXCLUSIVE: The NAACP has teamed with Tommy Oliver and Adam Platzner of Confluential Content (OWN's Black Love, Sony's The Perfect Guy, Sundance Award Winner Kinyarwanda) for #ITakeResponsibilty, a new campaign launched today that encourages White people to call out racism and commit to supporting Black…

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS on Monday announced $125,000 in immediate grants to the Broadway Advocacy Coalition and three other anti-racism organizations. The grants include a $50,000 commitment to the Broadway Advocacy Coalition as “a launch donation” for this week's three-day forum Broadway for Black Lives…

Walt Disney Wednesday pledged $5 million to support nonprofit organizations that advance social justice, beginning with a $2 million donation to the NAACP. The initial funds are to help the NAACP further its work on eliminating disparities and racial discrimination through advocacy and education programs. "The killing…

The 51st NAACP Image Awards were handed out tonight and were aired live on BET with trailblazing musician Lizzo bringing the “Juice” and taking the top honors for Entertainer of the Year and black-ish and When They See Us dominating the TV side and Just Mercy and Dolemite Is My Name taking trophies in the film…

EXCLUSIVE: The 51st NAACP Image Awards will air on BET Networks for the first time ever. The NAACP and BET Networks today announced an exclusive broadcast partnership for the two-hour telecast, which air live from Pasadena, CA on February 22 at 8/7c. The NAACP Image Awards honors the accomplishments of people of color…

Locked in a U.S. Supreme Court-bound $20 billion racial discrimination lawsuit with Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios, the alliance between Comcast and Donald Trump's Department of Justice has now roused the scrutiny of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People – and it might prove a bridge too…

Yes, Chris Rock went there. After saying he was told to avoid Jussie Smollett jokes, Rock brushed off the warning and mocked the embattled Empire actor Saturday night at the NAACP Image Awards. “I have to present an award,” Rock began. “They said no Jussie Smollett jokes. Yeah, I know, I know. What a waste of light…