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Multi-hyphenate entertainer Queen Latifah will as soon as once more host the NAACP Picture Awards, which is about to air in two weeks on BET.
On Tuesday (March 5), the NAACP together with BET and CBS introduced that Queen Latifah will likely be again to host the esteemed fifty fifth NAACP Picture Awards. The celebrated ceremony will air stay on BET and be simulcast on Saturday, March 16 at 8:00 P.M. ET. The Grammy Award-winning musician, Emmy, and Golden Globe Award-winning actor and producer hosted the occasion final 12 months and not too long ago acquired the Governor’s Award along with kicking off the fourth season of her extremely acclaimed CBS collection The Equalizer which she stars in and produces.
The award-winning author and poet Amanda Gorman, who carried out on the inauguration of President Joe Biden, will likely be offered with the Chairman’s Award which honors those that use their platforms to impact optimistic change. Inventive director and designer June Ambrose, who has been a artistic director at PUMA along with being accountable for most of the important appears to be like in Hip-Hop tradition, may also be offered with the Vanguard Award on the Picture Awards’ Vogue Present on Friday, March 15. Different honorees on the awards will likely be acknowledged in a non-televised separate dinner which can happen on March 14.
“We’re thrilled to collaborate with groundbreaking megastar Queen Latifah and are elated to welcome her once more as this 12 months’s host! We additionally look ahead to honoring changemaker and poet Amanda Gorman and trend icon June Ambrose for his or her large affect on tradition,” stated BET EVP Specials, Music Programming & Music Technique director Connie Orlando. “Queen Latifah, NAACP, and Pastis have been such unbelievable companions in amplifying Black tradition, excellence, creativity, and ingenuity, and this 12 months’s unforgettable present will likely be no completely different.”
“The NAACP Picture Awardsis an vital celebration for our neighborhood and business yearly, the group’s President and CEO Derrick Johnson stated. “We get the chance to focus on the most important accomplishments of artists, writers, entertainers, activists, and different change makers that push Black excellence ahead in a robust means.” The fifty fifth NAACP Picture Awards will happen on the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. Extra info will be discovered on their web site.
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