US NAACP Image Awards 2025 winners announced.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Image Awards 2025 winners were announced on US TV on Saturday, February 22, 2025.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States aimed at advancing justice for African Americans. It was founded by W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, and Ida B. Wells in 1909. One of its most popular events is the Image Awards where the highest achieving Black people have been awarded in various fields since 1967. Some of the best writers in the USA were awarded in the literary categories in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024.

The nominees for 2025 in the different categories including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and work for children and youth/teens were announced on Tuesday, January 7. The awards were announced in a TV broadcast with the following winning in the literary categories;

Fiction

• One of Us Knows: A Thriller, Alyssa Cole (William Morrow – HarperCollins Publishers)

Nonfiction

• Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest, Fawn Weaver (Melcher Media Inc.)

Debut Author

• Grown Woman, Sarai Johnson (Harper – HarperCollins Publishers)

Biography/Autobiography

• Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America, Joy-Ann Reid (Mariner Books – HarperCollins Publishers)

Poetry

• This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets, Kwame Alexander (Little, Brown and Company)

Children

• You Can Be a Good Friend (No Matter What!): A Lil TJ Book, Taraji P. Henson (Author), Paul Kellam (Illustrator) (Zonderkidz – HarperCollins)

Youth/Teens

• Brushed Between Cultures: A YA Coming of Age Novel Set in Brooklyn, New York — Samarra St. Hilaire (Samarra St. Hilaire)

Graphic Novel

• Punk Rock Karaoke, Bianca Xunise (Viking Books for Young Readers)