50th NAACP IMAGE AWARDS
LIVE ON TV ONE MARCH 30,2019
Dolby Theatre in Hollywood
LOS ANGELES, CA (January 3, 2019) – The 50th NAACP Image Awards will air LIVE on TV One, a division of Urban One, Inc., on March 30, 2019. For the first time ever, the telecast will take place from the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California. The announcement was made today by NAACP National Board of Directors Chairman Leon W. Russell, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson, Chief Executive Officer, Urban One, Inc. & Chairman/CEO, TV One Alfred Liggins and TV One General Manager Michelle Rice.
LIGHTING THE FIRES OF FREEDOM: African American Women in The Civil Rights Movement, is a groundbreaking collection based on oral histories that brilliantly plumb the leadership of African American women in the twentieth-century fight for civil rights--many nearly lost to history--from the latest winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize.
Read an excerpt of Lighting the Fires of Freedom
The Selfless Servant Leadership of the African-American Women of the Civil-Rights Movement
By Janet Dewart Bell