Here Are All the Winners at the 2026 NAACP Image Awards (Updating Nightly)
Michelle Obama won for outstanding literary work and Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show was named outstanding short-form special at the NAACP Image Awards virtual pre-show.
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NAACP Image Awards: Michelle Obama, Will Packer and Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Among Night One Non-Televised Winners
The awards, spanning the literary, short-form and creator categories, were announced during a virtual show exclusively on YouTube.
Here Are All the Winners at the 2026 NAACP Image Awards (Updating Nightly)
The Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show Starring Kendrick Lamar won outstanding short-form series or special – reality/nonfiction/documentary on Monday (Feb. 23), night 1 of the 57th NAACP Image Awards virtual show, leading up to the live presentation of the 57th NAACP Image Awards on Saturday (Feb. 28) at 8 p.m. ET/PT on BET and CBS. In another category announced Monday, Michelle Obama’s The Look took outstanding literary work – biograph…
NAACP Image Awards: Michelle Obama, Will Packer, Kendrick Lamar Among Night 1 Winners
Books by Michelle Obama and producer Will Packer and Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show performance a year ago were among the winners on the first night of the 2026 NAACP Image Awards. The winners in the literary, short-form and creator categories were revealed Monday during the first of three streaming presentations this week honoring […]
Michelle Obama, Kendrick Lamar Among Early NAACP Image Awards Winners
NAACP Image Awards begin with early streaming wins as Sinners leads and Teyana Taylor ties for top individual noms. The 57th NAACP Image Awards are officially underway — with a series of early streaming ceremonies leading up to Saturday night’s televised main event. The NAACP is hosting three pre-ceremony streaming presentations this week honoring winners in categories that will not be part of the live broadcast. The first streamed Monday, recog…
Word In Black's 'On Borrowed Time' Wins NAACP Image Award
On the same night Michelle Obama and Kendrick Lamar were celebrated at the 2026 NAACP Image Awards, a reporter for Word In Black quietly made history of her own. Anissa Durham won the inaugural Outstanding Literary Work – Journalism award for “On Borrowed Time,” her nine-part investigation into the organ donation and transplantation crisis facing Black Americans. Published in Word In Black last fall, the series beat out nominees from CNN and The…
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