"Insecure" received six N.A.A.C.P. Image Award nominations, including best directing in a comedy series.
Her most recent album, "We'll Never Turn Back," was a collection of protest songs produced by Ry Cooder that earned her rave reviews and a N.A.A.C.P. Image Award.
Mr. Rich, who died on Sunday at 86, received an Emmy and an N.A.A.C.P. Image Award for his work on that episode of "All in the Family".
Ms. Dee, 83, has also been nominated for an NAACP Image Award and an Academy Award for her role in the film.
Her first novel, Black Water Rising, was nominated for a 2010 Edgar award, an NAACP Image award, and a Los Angeles Times book prize.
RODAY: That was a very rewarding episode for Saladin [K. Patterson] and I. [They were nominated for an NAACP Image Award for writing the episode.] HILL: The joke is that James Roday is going to win an NAACP Image Award before I do.
After the N.A.A.C.P. dutifully honored her with a President's Image Award in 2002, the black Columbia historian Manning Marable dismissed Rice as a "leading race traitor" and the award as "accommodation" to an antiblack corporate establishment.
Ms. Martin was nominated for a N.A.A.C.P. Image Award for her role as the hero's grandmother in the 1987 film "Hollywood Shuffle" and in 1992 was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in Oakland, Calif.
Since his release, in 2005, he has graduated from the University of Maryland and Warren Wilson College's low-residency M.F.A. program, been a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard, received an N.A.A.C.P. Image Award, got married, and had two sons.
Mr. Spielberg, 52, was a presenter at the Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills on Jan . 23and is scheduled to accept an N.A.A.C.P. Image Award in Pasadena on Saturday.
Belafonte, 85, whose singing career helped popularise calypso music, was receiving an NAACP Image Award at a ceremony in Los Angeles on Friday night, and used the opportunity to launch an impassioned appeal.
