peabody awards
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Exclusive: Ibram X. Kendi Presents The Underground Railroad with 2022 Peabody Award
‘When we set out to make The Underground Railroad the primary goal for me was to honor the legacy of my ancestors,’ director/showrunner Barry Jenkins said.
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Exclusive: John Legend Presents 2022 Peabody Award to Netflix’s High on the Hog
‘Being nominated would’ve been an honor enough but this one mattered so much to me,’ said High on the Hog director and executive producer Roger Ross Williams.
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I May Destroy You Earns a 2021 Peabody Award, Raises Emmy Expectations
The critically acclaimed HBO series created by Michaela Coel won in the Peabodys’ Entertainment category and is an early favorite for the 2021 Emmys.
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Ava Duvernay’s ARRAY Receives Prestigious Peabody Institutional Award
The film distribution and resource collective has been changing the cinematic landscape for the last 10 years.
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Peabody Awards 2021: All In: The Fight For Democracy, I May Destroy You, Euphoria Among Nominees
On Tuesday, the Peabody Awards announced the nominees for its upcoming 81st awards ceremony. The winners are set to be announced virtually in June, according to a press release sent to The Root, and will recognize the most compelling and empowering stories and across a variety of programming. Per usual, we like to give major…
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2019 Peabody Awards: Pose and Random Acts of Flyness Among Honorees, FX to Debut Documentary TV Special on Winners
The 78th Annual Peabody Awards ceremony kicked off on Saturday, May 18 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City, and the category was…representation matters! Among the Peabody’s 30 honorees were FX’s hit show Pose and HBO’s critically acclaimed Random Acts of Flyness. The winners ranged from various mediums within entertainment such as television, documentaries,…
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Atlanta, Beyoncé’s Lemonade Named Peabody Award Winners
The Peabody Award entertainment winners were announced Thursday, and Donald Glover’s FX series, Atlanta, and Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade were among the seven winners. “The audacity of its reach and fierceness of its vision challenges our cultural imagination, while crafting a stunning and sublime masterpiece about the lives of women of color and the bonds…
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Watch: Baltimore, Freddie Gray and the Struggle of Race in America
Peabody Spotlight is a digital series produced by the Peabody Media Center at the University of Georgia. Each part of the series draws from the vast Peabody Awards archives, the third-largest repository of audiovisual materials in the United States. Peabody Spotlight will focus on significant societal issues as represented through the storytelling of Peabody winners…