NAACP Image Award

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The NAACP Image Award is an award presented annually by the American National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to honor outstanding people of color in film, television, music, and literature.

Similar to other awards, like the Oscars and the Grammys, the 35 categories of Image Awards are voted on by members of the NAACP. There are also honorary awards, including the President's Award, the Chairman's Award, Entertainer of the Year and The Image Award Hall of Fame.

The awards were first presented in 1969. The awards series is currently broadcast (on tape delay) on the Fox Network. It was first nationally televised in 1974. They usually take place around Februrary to early March and take place in or around the Los Angeles area.

1 Past Shows
2 Award categories
3 External link

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Past Shows

Year	Day	Host	Location
1970
1972	November
1974	January 19		Hollywood Palladium
1982	December 5	Robert Guillaume	Hollywood Palladium
1984	December 4
1997	February 8	Arsenio Hall/Patti LaBelle	Pasadena Civic Auditorium
1998	February 14	Vanessa L. Williams/Gregory Hines
1999	February 14	Mariah Carey/Blair Underwood	Pasadena Civic Auditorium
2000	February 12	Diana Ross	Pasadena Civic Auditorium
2001	February 23	Chris Tucker	Universal Amphitheater
2002	March 3	Chris Tucker	Universal Amphitheater
2003	March 8	Cedric the Entertainer	Universal Amphitheater
2004	March 6	Tracee Ellis Ross\Golden Brooks\Persia White\Jill Marie Jones	Universal Amphitheater
2005	March 19	Chris Tucker	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
2006	February 23	Cuba Gooding, Jr.	Shrine Auditorium