This is a list of awards dedicated to honoring or recognizing African Americans.
Awards
Media and entertainment
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Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics
The Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO), informally named the "Olympics of the Mind," is a youth program of the NAACP that is "designed to recruit, stimulate, improve and encourage high academic and cultural ac ...
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BCALA Literary Awards (Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards). Annual literary award from the
American Library Association, Black Caucus, which honors "outstanding works of fiction and nonfiction for adult audiences by African American authors"
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The BET Honors
The BET Honors were established in 2008 by the Black Entertainment Television network to respect the lives and achievements of African-American luminaries. The awards will be presented annually and broadcast on BET during Black History Month.
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, which celebrates the lives and achievements of African American luminaries.
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Coretta Scott King Award
(annual literary award from the
American Library Association given to
African American authors and illustrators)
* Golden Eagle Award, Afro-American in the Arts
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Black Movie Awards
The American Black Film Festival (originally called the Acalpulco Black Film Festival) is an independent film festival that focuses primarily on black film—works by Black members of the film industry. It is held to recognize achievements of film ...
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Essence Literary Awards (defunct)
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Glyph Comics Awards
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Langston Hughes Medal
The Langston Hughes Medal has been awarded annually by the Langston Hughes Festival of the City College of New York since 1978. The medal "is awarded to highly distinguished writers from throughout the African American diaspora for their impressi ...
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Miss Black America
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Miss Black USA
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NAACP Image Awards (given by the
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E.&nb ...
annually to people of color)
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NAACP Theatre Awards
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Shelia Award (alt. spelling "Sheila Award"),
Harriet Tubman African American Museum
Other
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Spingarn Medal
The Spingarn Medal is awarded annually by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for an outstanding achievement by an African American. The award was created in 1914 by Joel Elias Spingarn
Joel Elias Spingarn (May ...
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Percy L. Julian Award
The Percy L. Julian Award was first given in 1975 by the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers
The National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical ...
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Candace Award,
National Coalition of 100 Black Women
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African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...
African American-related lists