Recording and Literature nominees for the 2014 / 45th NAACP Image Awards:
Outstanding New Artist
• Ariana Grande (Republic Records)
• Candice Glover (19 Recordings/Interscope Records)
• K. Michelle (Atlantic Records)
• RaVaughn Brown (Columbia Records)
• Zendaya (Hollywood Records)
Outstanding Male Artist
• Bruno Mars (Atlantic Records)
• Charlie Wilson (RCA Records)
• John Legend (Columbia Records)
• Justin Timberlake (RCA Records)
• Robin Thicke (Star Trak/Interscope)
Outstanding Female Artist
• Beyoncé (Columbia Records)
• India.Arie (Motown Records)
• Janelle Monáe (Bad Boy/Atlantic)
• Ledisi (Verve Records)
• Mary J Blige (Verve Records/Interscope)
Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration
• "#Beautiful" - Mariah Carey feat. Miguel (Island Def Jam)
• "Blurred Lines" - Robin Thicke feat. T.I. & Pharrell (Star Trak/Interscope)
• "Fire We Make" - Alicia Keys feat. Maxwell (RCA Records)
• "Hurt You" - Toni Braxton feat. Babyface (Motown Records)
• "Suit & Tie" - Justin Timberlake feat. Jay-Z (RCA Records)
Outstanding Jazz Album
• "Summer Horns" - Dave Koz, Gerald Albright, Mindi Abair, Richard Elliot (Concord Records)
• "The Beat" - Boney James (Concord Records)
• "The Messenger" - Kevin Eubanks (Mack Avenue Records)
• "The Morning After: A Musical Love Journey" - Najee (Shanachie)
• "The Songs of Stevie Wonder" - SFJAZZ Collective (SFJAZZ Records)
Outstanding Gospel Album - (Traditional or Contemporary)
• "20 Year Celebration Volume 1 - Best For Last" - Donald Lawrence (Quietwater Entertainment/eOne Music)
• "Azusa: The Next Generation" - Hezekiah Walker (RCA Inspiration)
• "Best Days Deluxe Edition" - Tamela Mann (Tillymann Music)
• "Good God" - Shirley Caesar (eOne Music)
• "Music From the Motion Picture Black Nativity" - Various (RCA Inspiration)
Outstanding World Music Album
• "Coming from a Lady" - Lady Ele (13 Black Records)
• "Live At The Royal Albert Hall" - Emeli Sande (Capitol)
• "Natalie Cole en Español" - Natalie Cole (Verve Records)
• "Sing To The Moon" - Laura Mvula (Columbia Records)
• "The Standards" - Gloria Estefan (Masterworks)
Outstanding Music Video
• "Cocoa Butter" - India.Arie (Motown Records)
• "Fire We Make" - Alicia Keys feat. Maxwell (RCA Records)
• "Made To Love" - John Legend (Columbia Records)
• "Q.U.E.E.N." - Janelle Monáe feat. Erykah Badu (Bad Boy/Atlantic)
• "Treasure" - Bruno Mars (Atlantic Records)
Outstanding Song
• "All Of Me" - John Legend (Columbia Records)
• "Blurred Lines " - Robin Thicke feat. T.I. & Pharrell (Star Trak/Interscope)
• "Fire We Make" - Alicia Keys feat. Maxwell (RCA Records)
• "Q.U.E.E.N." - Janelle Monáe feat. Erykah Badu (Bad Boy/Atlantic)
• "Treasure" - Bruno Mars (Atlantic Records)
Outstanding Album
• "20/20 Experience - The Complete Experience" - Justin Timberlake (RCA Records)
• "Blurred Lines" - Robin Thicke (Star Trak/Interscope)
• "Love In The Future" - John Legend (Columbia Records)
• "Love, Charlie" - Charlie Wilson (RCA Records)
• "The Electric Lady" - Janelle Monáe (Bad Boy/Atlantic)
LITERATURE
Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction
• "A Deeper Love Inside: The Porscha Santiaga Story" - Sister Souljah (Atria/Emily Bestler Books)
• "Anybody's Daughter" - Pamela Samuels Young (Goldman House Publishing)
• "Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery" - Walter Mosley (Doubleday)
• "Never Say Never: A Novel" - Victoria Christopher Murray (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster)
• "Who Asked You?" - Terry McMillan (Viking)
Outstanding Literary Work - Non-Fiction
• "Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations: 5,000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs from Voices Around the World" - Retha Powers (Little, Brown and Company)
• "Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery" - Deborah Willis, Barbara Krauthamer (Temple University Press)
• "High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society" - Carl Hart (HarperCollins, Harper)
• "Letters to an Incarcerated Brother: Encouragement, Hope, and Healing for Inmates and Their Loved Ones" - Hill Harper (Gotham Books)
• "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross" - Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Donald Yacovone (SmileyBooks)
Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author
• "Better Than Good Hair - The Curly Girl Guide to Healthy Gorgeous Natural Hair!" - Nikki Walton with Ernessa T. Carter (Harper Collins- Amistad)
• "Ghana Must Go" - Taiye Selasi (The Penguin Press)
• "Nine Years Under" - Sheri Booker (Gotham Books)
• "On The Come Up" - Hannah Weyer (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)
• "The Returned" - Jason Mott (Harlequin MIRA)
Outstanding Literary Work - Biography/ Auto-Biography
• "Buck: A Memoir" - MK Asante (Spiegel & Grau)
• "Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington" - Terry Teachout (Gotham Books)
• "Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker" - Stanley Crouch (HarperCollins, Harper)
• "Mom & Me & Mom" - Maya Angelou (Random House)
• "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" - Jeanne Theoharis (Beacon Press)
Outstanding Literary Work - Instructional
• "Do I Look Like An ATM? A Parent's Guide to Raising Financially Responsible African American Children" - Sabrina Lamb (Chicago Review Press)
• "Plan D: How to Lose Weight and Beat Diabetes (Even If You Don't Have It)" – Sherri Shepherd with Billie Fitzpatrick (HarperCollins, It Books)
• "Recruiting and Retaining Culturally Different Students in Gifted Education" - Donna Y. Ford, Ph.D. (Prufrock Press Inc.)
• "The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs" - Kevin D. Johnson (Johnson Media Inc.)
• "The Vegucation of Robin: How Real Food Saved My Life" - Robin Quivers (Avery)
Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry
• "Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid" - Nikki Giovanni (HarperCollins, William Morrow)
• "Hum" - Jamaal May (Alice James Books)
• "The Cineaste: Poems" - A. Van Jordan (W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
• "The Collected Poems of Ai" - Ai (W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
• "Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers" - Frank X Walker (University of Georgia Press)
Outstanding Literary Work - Children
• "I'm A Pretty Little Black Girl!" - Betty K. Bynum (Author), Claire Armstrong-Parod (Illustrator) (Dream Title Publishing)
• "Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me" - Daniel Beaty (Author), Bryan Collier (Illustrator) (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• "Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song" - Andrea Davis Pinkney (Author), Brian Pinkney (Illustrator) (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• "Nelson Mandela" - Kadir Nelson (HarperCollins Children's Books/Katherine Tegen Books)
• "You Never Heard of Willie Mays?!" - Jonah Winter (Author), Terry Widener (Illustrator) (RH Childrens Books; Schwartz & Wade)
Outstanding Literary Work - Youth/Teens
• "Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers" - Tanya Lee
Stone (Candlewick Press)
• "God's Graffiti: Inspiring Stories for Teens" - Romal Tune (Judson Press)
• "Invasion" - Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic Press/Scholastic)
• "Raising the Bar" - Gabrielle Douglas (Zondervan)
• "Serafina's Promise: A Novel In Verse" - Ann E. Burg (Scholastic Press/Scholastic)
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