NAACP Image Awards will honor former Vice President Kamala Harris
NAACP celebrates its 56th Image Awards in 116-year-old organization
This Black History Month, the 56th NAACP Image Awards will be broadcast live on Saturday, February 22, at 7 p.m. CT on BET. This event celebrates a variety of achievements and performances in more than 80 categories in film, television and streaming, music, literature, and podcasts.
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I have already voted in the fan favorites categories for the NAACP Image Awards. (The voting window is now closed, and I’m crossing my fingers in hopes “We Don’t Always Agree,” “Diarra from Detroit” and Cree Summer don’t go home empty-handed.)
There will be another special guest in attendance at this year’s event, former Vice President Kamala Harris. She will be honored with the prestigious Chairman's Award. Check out the NAACP Image Awards broadcast this coming week, which will be extended 30 minutes to 2.5 hours. Tune in!
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Black History Facts
Former Vice President Kamala Harris made history with 75,019,257 votes in 2024 — even beating out her rival’s 2020 popular vote count of 74,216,728. (In 2024, Trump got 77,303,568 votes — about 2 million more than her. But it took him eight years to get this. She earned more than 75 million votes in three months.) She now holds the record for the third highest votes in U.S. history.
Outside of her friend and former boss President Joe Biden’s 81,268,773 popular vote count in 2020, Harris’ 2024 results also beat out past Democratic presidents:
Former President Barack H. Obama received 69,456,897 votes in 2008 over John McCain’s 59,934,814 votes.
In 2012, Obama received 65,899,660 votes over Mitt Romney’s 60,932,152.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote with 65,788,564 but lost the electoral college vote; Trump had 62,955,340 votes.
In 1996, former President Bill Clinton got 47,402,357 votes over Robert Dole’s 39,198,755.
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About the NAACP: After a deadly riot in 1908, a group of white liberals (Mary White Ovington and Oswald Garrison Villard (both descendants of famous abolitionists), William English Walling and Dr. Henry Moscowitz initiated a meeting to discuss racial justice. Approximately 60 people, seven of whom were African American (including W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Mary Church Terrell), signed the call, which was released on the centennial of Lincoln's birth. On February 12, 1909, the nation's largest and most widely recognized civil rights organization was born. Click here for more info.
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