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NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction

This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction. Maya Angelou, Michael Eric Dyson, and Barack Obama hold the record for most wins in this category, with two each.

Winners and nominees

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1990s

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Award winners, 1994-1999
Year Book Author Result Ref.
1994 By Any Means Necessary: The Trials and Tribulations of the Making of 'Malcolm X' Spike Lee and Ralph Wiley Winner [1]
1996
When We Were Colored Clifton Taulbert Winner [2]
1999
With Ossie & Ruby: In This Life Together Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee Winner [3]

2000s

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Award winners, 2002-2009
Year Book Author Result Ref.
2002 Sally Hemings, An American Scandal Tina Andrews Winner [4][better source needed]
2003 Keeping the Faith Tavis Smiley Winner
A Song Flung Up to Heaven Maya Angelou Finalist
Bill Clinton and Black America DeWayne Wickham
Growing Up X Ilyasah Shabazz
Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters Carla Kaplan
2004 Why I Love Black Women Michael Eric Dyson Winner [5][better source needed]
2005 Hallelujah! The Welcome Table Maya Angelou Winner [6][better source needed]
2006 Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? Michael Eric Dyson Winner
Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir Stanley Williams Finalist
The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero's Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters and Speeches Manning Marable and Myrlie Evers-Williams
50 Years After Brown: The State of Black Equality in America Anthony Asadullah Samad
Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America John McWhorter
2007 The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream Barack Obama Winner [7]
Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster Michael Eric Dyson Finalist [7][8]
The Covenant with Black America Stanley Williams
Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete William C. Rhoden
Not in My Family: AIDS in the African American Community Gil L. Robertson
2008 Not on Our Watch Don Cheadle and John Prendergast Winner [9]
An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President Randall Robinson Finalist [10]
Brother, I'm Dying Edwidge Danticat
Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip-Hop Michael Eric Dyson
Race and Racism in the Chinas: Chinese Racial Attitudes Toward Africans and African-Americans M. Dujon Johnson
2009 Letter to My Daughter Maya Angelou Winner [11][12]

2010s

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Award winners, 2010-2019[13]
Year Book Author Result Ref.
2010 In Search of Our Roots Henry Louis Gates Jr. Winner [14]
Freedom in My Heart: Voices From the United States National Slavery Museum Cynthia Carter Finalist [15]
Our Choice Al Gore
Brain Surgeon: A Doctor's Inspiring Encounters With Mortality and Miracles Arnold Mann and Keith Black
Family Affair: What It Means to Be African American Today Gil L. Robertson
2011 The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander Winner [16]
Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority Tom Burrell Finalist
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts of Women in SNCC Faith S. Holsaert
Surviving and Thriving 365 Days in Black Economic History Julianne Malveaux
The History of White People Nell Irvin Painter
2012 The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in Its Place Hill Harper Winner [17]
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America Melissa Harris-Perry Finalist [17]
Super Rich Russell Simmons
The Cosmopolitan Canopy Elijah Anderson
Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now Touré
2013 The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court Jeffrey Toobin Winner [18]
Fraternity Diane Brady Finalist [18][19]
Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation Deborah Davis
Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman's Quest for Social Justice in America, from the Courtroom to the Kill Zones Connie Rice
The Courage to Hope Shirley Sherrod
2014 Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer Winner [20]
Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations: 5,000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs from Voices Around the World Retha Powers Finalist [20]
High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society Carl Hart
Letters to an Incarcerated Brother: Encouragement, Hope, and Healing for Inmates and Their Loved Ones Hill Harper
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Donald Yacovone
2015 Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Bryan Stevenson Winner [21]
Bad Feminist Roxane Gay Finalist [21]
Place Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America Sheryll Cashin
Who We Be: The Colorization of America Jeff Chang
2016 Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga Pamela Newkirk Winner [22]
50 Billion Dollar Boss: African American Women Sharing Stories of Success in Entrepreneurship and Leadership Kathey Porter and Andrea Hoffman Finalist [22]
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America Jill Leovy
Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America Wil Haygood
The Light of the World Elizabeth Alexander
2017 Hidden Figures Margot Lee Shetterly Winner [23]
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul Eddie S. Glaude Finalist [23]
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Ibram X. Kendi
Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld
2018 Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies Dick Gregory (posthumous) Winner [24]
Black Detroit – A People’s History of Self-Determination Herb Boyd Finalist [24]
Chokehold: Policing Black Men Paul Butler
The President's Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas Adrian Miller
We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy Ta-Nehisi Coates
2019 For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah D. Daughtry, Minyon Moore, Veronica Chambers Winner [25]
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" Zora Neale Hurston Finalist [25]
Black Girls Rock! Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth Beverly Bond
May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem Imani Perry
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row Anthony Ray Hinton and Lara Love Hardin

2020s

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Award winners, 2020-present[13]
Year Book Author Result Ref.
2020 The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations Toni Morrison Winner [26]
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons Imani Perry Finalist [26]
STONY THE ROAD: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The Yellow House Sarah M. Broom
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essay Damon Young
2021 A Promised Land Barack Obama Winner [27]
A Black Women's History of the United States Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross Finalist [28]
Driving While Black Gretchen Sorin
Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America Michael Eric Dyson
We're Better Than This Elijah Cummings
2022 The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story Nikole Hannah-Jones Winner [29][30]
Dance Theatre of Harlem Judy Tyrus and Paul Novosel Finalist [30]
Just As I Am Cicely Tyson
My Remarkable Journey Katherine Johnson
Renegades: Born in the USA Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen
2023 Finding Me Viola Davis Winner [31]
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America Cody Keenan Finalist [32]
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation Linda Villarosa
Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Andrew S. Curran
Requiem for the Massacre: A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre RJ Young
2024 The New Brownies’ Book Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer Winner [33]
Black AF History: The Un–Whitewashed Story of America Michael Harriot Finalist [34]
BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art Zaria Ware
Iconic Home: Interiors, Advice, and Stories from 50 Amazing Black Designers Black Interior Designers and June Reese
The Art of Ruth E. Carter Ruth E. Carter


Multiple wins and nominations

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Wins

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2 wins

Nominations

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References

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