{"id":1000182,"date":"2022-02-22T16:10:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T16:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/22\/samuel-l-jackson-to-receive-prestigious-chairmans-award-at-naacp-image-awards\/"},"modified":"2022-02-22T16:10:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T16:10:13","slug":"samuel-l-jackson-to-receive-prestigious-chairmans-award-at-naacp-image-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/22\/samuel-l-jackson-to-receive-prestigious-chairmans-award-at-naacp-image-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel L. Jackson to receive prestigious Chairman\u2019s Award at NAACP Image Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BET announced that actor and producer Samuel L. Jackson, will be awarded the prestigious Chairman\u2019s Award during the 53rd NAACP Image Awards taking place this coming Sunday in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

The Chairman\u2019s Award is bestowed in recognition of individuals who demonstrate exemplary public service and use their respective platforms to create agents of change.<\/p>\n

\u201cSamuel L. Jackson\u2019s talent and star power has inspired generations and continues to raise the bar for all of Hollywood. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe admire his impressive entertainment career and humanitarian efforts, and we look forward to giving him his flowers as a living legend, continuing to honour his Black Excellence,\u201d says Connie Orlando, EVP, Specials, Music Programming & Music Strategy.<\/p>\n

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Leon W Russell, chairperson of the NAACP national board of directors, agrees that the \u201cShaft\u201d star is indeed fit for the award due to his impact and contribution to the film industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany might not know that prior to his acting career, Jackson was a staunch activist during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, even serving as an usher at Martin Luther King jr\u2019s funeral. His continued public service and advocacy for social change make him an excellent recipient for the Chairman\u2019s Award,\u201d says Russell.<\/p>\n

Other people who have received the award include the late US Congressman John Lewis and Ruby Dee, Danny Glover, Rev James Lawson, Tyler Perry, then-Senator Barack Obama, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, and former Surgeon General Regina Benjamin.<\/p>\n

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BET announced that actor and producer Samuel L. Jackson, will be awarded the prestigious Chairman\u2019s Award during the 53rd NAACP Image Awards taking place this coming Sunday in Los Angeles. The Chairman\u2019s Award is bestowed in recognition of individuals who demonstrate exemplary public service and use their respective platforms to create agents of change. \u201cSamuel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1000183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}