List of awards honoring African Americans

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This is a list of awards dedicated to honoring or recognizing African Americans.

• BCALA Literary Awards (annual literary award from the American Library Association, Black Caucus, which honors "outstanding works of fiction and nonfiction for adult audiences by African American authors"
• Coretta Scott King Award[1] (annual literary award from the American Library Association given to African American authors and illustrators)
• NAACP Image Awards (given by the NAACP annually to people of color)
• Spingarn Medal
• Golden Eagle Award, Afro-American in the Arts
• Candace Award, National Coalition of 100 Black Women
• Shelia Award (alt. spelling "Sheila Award"), [[Harriet Tubman African American Museum)
• Langston Hughes Medal
• The BET Honors, which celebrates the lives and achievements of African American luminaries.