52nd Annual NAACP Image Awards took place last night
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Hosted by 7 time NAACP winner, Anthony Anderson
Misty Copeland presented Outstanding Actor Drama Series to Rege-Jean Page - Bridgerton (1st nomination & 1st win)
Entertainer of the Year nominees - D-Nice/Regina King/Trevor Noah/Tyler Perry/Viola Davis
Andra Day and Cynthia Erivo presented Outstand Actress Drama Series to Viola Davis (19th nomination & 5th win) - How To Get Away With Murder
Outstanding Motion Picture nominees - Bad Boys for Life/Da 5 Bloods/Jingle Jangle A Christmas Journey/Ma Rainey's Black Bottom/One Night in Miami
KJ Smith and Novi Brown presented a performance by Jazmine Sullivan
President and CEO Derrick Johnson presented the President's Award to LeBron James
Tracy Morgan presented Outstanding Actress Comedy Series to Issa Rae - Insecure (12th nomination & first win)
Outstanding Motion Picture nominees Da 5 Bloods/Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
Lin-Manuel Miranda presented Outstanding Actress Motion Picture to Viola Davis - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Michelle Obama presented Social Justice Impact Award to Stacey Abrams Regina King presented Outstanding Actor Motion Picture to Chadwick Boseman (Simone Ledward Boseman)- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Anthony Anderson announced Founders Award to Tony Bodz (co-founder of Image Awards) and Jackie Robinson Sports Award to NBA star Steph Curry and WNBA Players Association
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Leon W. Russell presented NAACP Chairman's award to Reverend James Lawson

In Memoriam
Cicely Tyson - Actress; David N. Dinkins - 106th Mayor of New York City; Andre Harrell - Music Executive; Prince Markie Dee - Founding Member or the Fat Boys; Bill Withers - Singer-Songwriter; Charley Pride - Singer; Ellis Marsalis Jr. - Jazz Pianist; Jimmy Heath - Jazz Saxophonist; Bishop Rance Allen - Gospel Singer; Herman Cain - Presidential Candidate; Katherine Johnson - Mathematician; Jas Waters - Television Writer; Barbara Neely - Author; Roscoe Nance - Journalist; Mary Wilson - The Founding Member of the Supremes; Reggie Brown - Filmmaker; Yaphet Kotto - Actor Hank Aaron - Hall of Fame Baseball Player; Pop Smoke - Rapper; McCoy Tyner - Jazz Pianist; Wallace Roney - Jazz Trumpeter; Johnny Nash - Singer-Songwriter; B. Smith - Restauranteur and Businesswoman; Earl G. Graves, Sr. - Black Enterprise Founder; Rev. C.T. Vivian - Civil Rights Leader; Barbara C. Harris - First Woman Ordained an Episcopal Bishop; Naya Rivera - Actress; Thomas Jefferson Byrd - Actor; Natalie Desselle Reid - Actress; Tommy 'Tiny' Lister - Actor; Fred 'Curly' Neal - Harlem Globetrotters; Irv Cross - Pioneering Black Sports Analyst; John Thompson - Hall of Fame Basketball Coach; Wes Unseld - NBA Hall of Fame Player; Elgin Baylor - NBA Hall of Fame Player; John Chaney - College Basketball Coach; Lou Brock - Hall of Fame Baseball Player; Marvelous Marvin Hagler - World Champion Boxer; Gale Sayers - Football Player; Kamala 'The Ugandan Giant' - Professional Wrestler; Rocky Johnson - Professional Wrestler; Shad Gaspard - Professional Wrestler; Bonnie Pointer - Singer; Bunny Wailer - Singer-Songwriter; Little Richard - Music Pioneer; Frederick 'Toots' Hibbert - Singer; Pamela Hutchinson - Singer; Betty Wright - Singer; Joe Clark - Educator; Vernon Jordan - Executive and Civil Rights Activist; Rev. Joseph Lowery - Civil Rights Pioneer; Gwen Moore - California State Assemblywoman NAACP Board Member; Drew Days III - First Black Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Division; Bruce Boynton - Civil Rights Activist; John Lewis - U.S. Representative and Civil Rights Icon; Breonna Taylor - Black Lives Matter; George Floyd - Black Lives Matter; Ahmaud Arbery - Black Lives Matter; Chadwick Boseman - Actor

Arsenio Hall presents Hall of Fame Award to Eddie Murphy Maxwell performs Samuel L. Jackson presents Outstanding Motion Picture to Bad Boys for Life - Will Smith and Martin Lawrence Swiss Beatz and Alicia Keys present Entertainer of the Year to D-Nice

Presenters included:
Stacey Abrams, Anthony Anderson, Swiss Beatz, Novi Brown, Misty Copeland, Andra Day, Cynthia Erivo, Arsenio Hall, Samuel L. Jackson, LeBron James, Derrick Johnson, Alicia Keys, Regina King, Reverand James Lawson, Maxwell, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tracy Morgan, Eddie Murphy, Michelle Obama, Leon W. Russell, KJ Smith, Jazmine Sullivan

Enjoyed an outdoor lunch at Hot House Cafe with the family.

Very happy to have finally caught the 2014 'Hector and the Search for Happiness' with Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Toni Collette and Christopher Plummer today. As I had no idea what the premise of the movie was, it was such a pleasant surprise that the movie brought a different way of thinking about how happiness can be viewed depending on different frames of references.