Cardi B, Don Lemon, Michelle Obama

Cardi B, Don Lemon and SZA joined Michelle Obama and Kendrick Lamar as NAACP Image Award winners on night time 2 of the digital pre-show.

Cardi B gained three Image Awards on Tuesday night time, including excellent feminine artist and excellent album for her latest report “Am I the Drama?” Her monitor “ErrTime” gained the prize for excellent hip-hop/rap track. Before the ceremony, Cardi B had gained just one Image Award, for serving as decide and govt producer of “Rhythm & Flow.”

Veteran journalist Don Lemon gained two trophies for his eponymous speak present, “The Don Lemon Show”; Lemon’s news and speak collection and Obama’s podcast “IMO,” which the former first girl co-hosts along with her brother Craig Robinson, gained 4 of the 5 awards offered for that medium.

Lamar, who was also a big winner on the first night time of the three-part digital ceremony, hosted by Angel “ThatChickAngel” Laketa Moore and Khleo Thomas. On Tuesday, Lamar also gained prizes in two more classes — named excellent male artist and sharing the music video/visible album award with SZA for his or her Grammy-winning hit track “Luther.”

Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” gained its first awards out of a huge 18 nominations, gathering the prizes for excellent soundtrack and unique score. The interval vampire thriller is the most-nominated project at this yr’s Image Awards, which can air live on Saturday, Feb. 28, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on BET and CBS. Deon Cole returns to host the present, broadcast from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. The recently-wrapped Peacock collection “Bel-Air” led the TV classes with seven nominations. The nominees for Entertainer of the Year, the present’s signature class, embody Cynthia Erivo, Doechii, Lamar, Michael B. Jordan and Teyana Taylor.

Special honorees for this yr’s NAACP Image Awards week embody Viola Davis, who can be offered with the Chairman’s Award; Colman Domingo, the President’s Award honoree; A$AP Rocky, to be offered with the Vanguard Award for style; and Rev. Dr. Jamal-Harrison Bryant, who will obtain the prestigious Mildred Bond Roxborough Social Justice Impact Award.

Watch the digital pre-show in the video above. The full listing of winners from night time two will be discovered below:

Outstanding Music Video/Visual Album

“luther” – Kendrick Lamar & SZA (pgLang under exclusive license to Interscope Records)

Outstanding New Artist

Monaleo – “Who Did the Body?” (Columbia Records)

Outstanding Female Artist

Cardi B (Atlantic Records)

Outstanding Male Artist

Kendrick Lamar (pgLang under exclusive license to Interscope Records)

Outstanding Hip-Hop/Rap Song

“ErrTime” – Cardi B (Atlantic Records)

Outstanding Soundtrack/Compilation Album

“Sinners (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (Proximity Media LLC, under exclusive license to Masterworks, a label of Sony Music Entertainment)

Outstanding International Song

“Is It” – Tyla (Epic Records)

Outstanding Jazz Album

“We Insist! 2025” – Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell (Candid Records)

Outstanding Gospel/Christian Song

“Do it Again” – Kirk Franklin (Fo Yo Soul Recordings/Tribl Records)

Outstanding Gospel/Christian Album

“Tasha” – Tasha Cobbs Leonard (Motown Gospel)

Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration (Traditional)

803Fresh feat. Fantasia – “Boots on the Ground Remix” (Snake Eyez Music Group/Artist Partner Group)

Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration (Contemporary)

Chris Brown feat. Bryson Tiller & Usher – “It Depends (Remix)” (RCA Records/Chris Brown Entertainment)

Outstanding Original Score for TV/Film

“Sinners (Original Motion Picture Score)” (Proximity Media LLC, under exclusive license to Sony Classical, a label of Sony Music Entertainment)

Outstanding Album

“Am I The Drama?” – Cardi B (Atlantic Records)

Outstanding Podcast – Scripted/Limited Series/Short Form

“Interesting Things with JC” (Jim Connors LLC)

Outstanding Podcast – News and Information

“The Don Lemon Show” (Lemon Media Network)

Outstanding Podcast – Lifestyle/Self-Help

“IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson” (Higher Ground)

Outstanding Podcast – Arts, Sports and Entertainment

“IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson” (Higher Ground)

Outstanding Podcast – Society and Culture

“The Don Lemon Show” (Lemon Media Network)

Monday, February 23

The 57th NAACP Image Awards week kicked off Monday with former first girl Michelle Obama and rapper Kendrick Lamar profitable two of the early prizes.

Obama’s latest e-book, “The Look” — which explored her model evolution from her time in the White House to life afterwards — gained the award for excellent literary work biography/autobiography. Meanwhile, Lamar’s electrifying Super Bowl halftime performance was named excellent short-form collection or particular – actuality/nonfiction/documentary. Both Obama and Lamar are repeat winners at the Image Awards: she gained in the same class in 2019 for her memoir “Becoming,” while he has 9 trophies from the NAACP, including two for his 2025 anthem “Not Like Us.”

The awards had been announced during the first version of a three-night digital event, the place winners can be revealed in the majority of the Image Awards’ more than 90 classes (across movie, tv and streaming, music, literature and podcasts). The pre-show ceremony, hosted by Angel “ThatChickAngel” Laketa Moore and Khleo Thomas, aired solely on YouTube and NAACP+ and centered totally on the literary classes, in addition to two digital content creator prizes. For the first time, the NAACP Image Awards obtained into gaming, with Berlin Edmond Jr., aka Berleezy, profitable the top prize.

Watch the digital pre-show ceremony in the video above. The full listing of winners from night time one will be discovered right here:

Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography

“The Look” – Michelle Obama (Crown)

Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction

“A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm & Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics” – Juanita Tolliver (Legacy Lit/Hachette Book Group)

Outstanding Literary Work – Instructional

“Who Better Than You?” – Will Packer (Penguin Random House)

Outstanding Literary Work – Journalism

“On Borrowed Time” – Anissa Durham (Online)

Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author

Charles B. Fancher – “Red Clay” (Blackstone Publishing)

Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction

“Death of the Author” – Nnedi Okorafor (William Morrow)

Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry

“The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems” – Patricia Smith (Scribner)

Outstanding Literary Work – Children

“Yvonne Clark and Her Engineering Spark” – Allen R. Wells; Illustrated by DeAndra Hodge (Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers/Macmillan)

Outstanding Literary Work – Youth/Teens

“Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Book of Anansi” – Angie Thomas (HarperCollins/Clarion Books)

Outstanding Literary Work – Graphic Novel

“Parable of the Talents: A Graphic Novel Adaptation” – Octavia E. Butler, tailored by Damien Duffy, illustrated by John Jennings and David Brame (Abrams ComedianArts)

Outstanding Short-Form Series or Special – Reality/Nonfiction/Documentary

“The Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show Starring Kendrick Lamar” (FOX)

Outstanding Digital Content Creator – Gaming/Tech

Berlin Edmond Jr. (@Berleezy)

Outstanding Digital Content Creator – Fitness/Wellness/Food

Keith Lee (@keith_lee125)