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"The Lion King" wins at the 2020 NAACP Image Awards

February 23, 2020 1 min read animation award Media NAACP NAACP Image Awards The Lion King

The 2020 NAACP Image Awards took place on Saturday night. Here’s a look at the animation-related winners. A full list is available here; winners below are in bold, with animation-related nominees

The 2020 NAACP Image Awards animation nominees

January 21, 2020 2 min read animation award Media NAACP NAACP Image Awards

I know I’ve been writing a lot lately about award show nominations. However, I realized I never looked at the NAACP’s annual Image Awards for animation-related nominees. Thus, I

The best of minorities in cartoons: the March on Washington

August 28, 2013 1 min read African-Americans animation Bayard Rustin Best of minorities in cartoons civil rights John Lewis LGBTQ Martin Luther King Media minorities in cartoons NAACP

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, the African-American civil rights march held in Washington, DC that saw Martin Luther King give his famous “I Have a Dream”

Minorities in cartoons: The NAACP and comics

November 29, 2012 1 min read African-Americans civil rights comics trivia independent comics Media minorities in cartoons NAACP

This week’s “minorities in cartoons” entry focuses on a few comics produced by the NAACP during the 1960s Civil Rights movement, similar to the Martin Luther King comic I