Host Anthony Anderson Entertains Crowd & Opens Show At The 51st NAACP Image Awards!

Hi Tracee Ellis Ross, what's up? Fox, okay, welcome to the

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n-double-a-cp Image Awards. Okay, give yourselves a round of applause, this is a night of celebration, a

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to honor the best in black excellence and we are here. on a new network b ET a wholly owned subsidiary of Tyler Perry now tonight we are simulcast on B et MTV vh1 CMT logo Comedy Central TV Land pop on Smithsonian think about it think about it we are on a country music channel a black network logo and the tv lands one way or another nas little nas 9:30 but he said no Anthony you can't mention black this Tuesday night at 9:30 I said I mentioned black he said at 9:30 on Tuesday they said Anthony chill buddy you just can't mention blackish this Tuesday night at 9:30, they said I could.

I don't even mention the network that is broadcasting. I said, guys, as easy as ABC. Now the award category in which he was nominated was moved to a non-televised gala last night. There were some who said it should have been televised and by some I mean me. I won again thank you but we are here at the n-double-a-cp the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People I asked the leaders I asked the leaders why don't they take away the word color and they said too soon Organizations have existed Since 1909, it doesn't matter, as always, we take a look back at the year in the black news.

So much has been happening. Well, beauty pageant history was made. For the first time there were five black beauty queens who won Miss Universe Miss World. Miss America Miss USA Miss Teen USA six black beauty queens if you count Billy Porter what happens? Billy, we wanted Chaka Khan to sing the black national anthem tonight, but she still sings the national anthem at last week's All-Star her performance was so long colin kaepernick She had to get up to stretch her legs and look at our audience tonight , so different from other

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s, we actually have black nominees, give yourself a round of applause, movies like Just Mercy, a great movie starring Jamie Foxx and Michael B.

Jordan about an innocent man. death row im coming out with the sequel about me and this flight a suit called lord have mercy how great the movie was harriet round of applause for harriet excellent acting perfect casting although all omar dorsey sometimes forgot what period he was in at a time Given said: I want to bust the dough's ass wrong arrow Marv, yeah we don't need to mention this since right now it's a presidential election year that looks like Bernie Sanders vs. Mayor Pete vs. Mike Bloomberg vs. Elizabeth Warren vs. Amy Klobuchar vs. Joe Biden, how are you? that because of the diversity that all shades of white represent we have white we have off light we have cream we have raw beige tonight is a night to celebrate but it is also an opportunity to pay tribute to the work of the n-double a-c-p the activism of all of you and to remember the sacrifices made by the giants of the civil rights movement, we really have come so far, but this year there were stories that remind us of the discrimination that still exists.

Hair Love won an Oscar for its great positive story about an African woman. American father and his daughter, but while that movie was winning

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, our society disciplines black people for our hair thanks in part to the N double ACP passage of the Crown Act that made California the first state and discrimination against black students and employees for their natural hairstyle. On the one hand, that's progress, on the other hand, why the hell in God's name do we need that law in the first place? But that's why we're here to show our solidarity and celebrate those whose standards of excellence inspire us all.