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NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction

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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.

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

Year	Book	Author	Ref
2002
2002	Sally Hemings, An American Scandal	Tina Andrews	^[4]
2003			^[4]
	Keeping the Faith	Tavis Smiley	^[5]
	A Song Flung Up to Heaven	Maya Angelou
	Bill Clinton and Black America	DeWayne Wickham
	Growing Up X	Ilyasah Shabazz
	Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters	Carla Kaplan
2004
2004	Why I Love Black Women	Michael Eric Dyson	^[6]
2005			^[6]
2005	Hallelujah! The Welcome Table	Maya Angelou	^[7]
2006			^[7]
	Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?	Michael Eric Dyson	^[8]
	Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir	Stanley Williams
	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	^[9]
	Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster	Michael Eric Dyson
	The Covenant with Black America	Tavis Smiley
	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	^[10]
	An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President	Randall Robinson
	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
2009	Letter to My Daughter	Maya Angelou	^[11]

Year	Book	Author	Ref
2010
	In Search of Our Roots	Henry Louis Gates Jr.	^[12]
	Freedom in My Heart: Voices From the United States National Slavery Museum	Cynthia Carter
	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	^[13]
	Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority	Tom Burrell
	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	^[14]
	Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America	Melissa Harris-Perry
	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	^[15]
	Fraternity	Diane Brady
	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	^[16]
	Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations: 5,000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs from Voices Around the World	Retha Powers
	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	^[17]
	Bad Feminist	Roxane Gay
	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	^[18]
	50 Billion Dollar Boss: African American Women Sharing Stories of Success in Entrepreneurship and Leadership	Kathey Porter and Andrea Hoffman
	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	^[19]
	Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul	Eddie S. Glaude
	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)	^[20]
	Black Detroit – A People’s History of Self-Determination	Herb Boyd
	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 (Author), Yolanda Caraway (Author), Leah D. Daughtry (Author), Minyon Moore (Author), Veronica Chambers	^[21]
	Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"	Zora Neale Hurston
	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 (Author), Lara Love Hardin

Year	Book	Author	Ref
2020
	The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations	Toni Morrison	^[22]
	Breathe: A Letter to My Sons	Imani Perry
	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	^[23]
	A Black Women's History of the United States	Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
	Driving While Black	Gretchen Sorin
	Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America	Michael Eric Dyson
	We're Better Than This	Elijah Cummings

NAACP_Image_Award_for_Outstanding_Literary_Work_–_Nonfiction

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction

Winners and nominees

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2020s

Multiple wins and nominations

Wins

Nominations

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