





{"id":10456,"date":"2016-12-14T13:58:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T18:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/?p=10456"},"modified":"2016-12-14T13:58:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T18:58:40","slug":"2017-naacp-image-award-nominees-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/2017-naacp-image-award-nominees-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 NAACP Image Award Nominees Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9866\" src=\"http:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/livre_jericho_350x110-300x94.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"94\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/livre_jericho_350x110-300x94.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/livre_jericho_350x110.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The nominees for the 2017\u00a0<strong>NAACP Image Awards <\/strong>have been announced. In the lone Gospel category the nominees are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Outstanding Gospel Album \u2013 (Traditional or Contemporary)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Jericho: Tribe of Joshua\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; Livre\u2019 (Glory 2 Glory Entertainment\/RAL)<br \/>\n<em>Myron Butler &amp; Levi On Purpose<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; Myron Butler (Motown Gospel)<br \/>\n<em>One Way\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; Tamela Mann (Tillymann, Inc.)<br \/>\n<em>The Journey (Live)\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; Donnie McClurkin (RCA Inspiration)<br \/>\n<em>Worship Journal Live<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; Fred Hammond (RCA Inspiration)<\/p>\n<p>In a nice surprise, Gospel made appearances in other categories. \u00a0<strong>Kim Burrell&#8217;s<\/strong> &#8220;I See Victory&#8221; and <strong>Tamela Mann&#8217;s<\/strong> &#8220;God Provides&#8221; are nominated for \u00a0<strong>Outstanding Song \u2013 Traditional<\/strong>, which puts them up against\u00a0<strong>Solange<\/strong> for \u201cCranes In The Sky\u201d \u00a0and <strong>Maxwell<\/strong> for \u201cLake By The Ocean\u201d. \u00a0And in the \u00a0<strong>Outstanding Song \u2013 Contemporary \u00a0<\/strong>\u201cRoyalty\u201d \u00a0by <strong>Sounds of Blackness<\/strong>\u00a0goes up against\u00a0Bruno Mars, Beyonc\u00e9, Common\u00a0and more.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mod\" data-md=\"50\" data-ved=\"0ahUKEwiHiMeGqvTQAhXHE5AKHWNFAL8QkCkIkgQoATAO\">\n<div class=\"_cgc\" data-hveid=\"531\" data-ved=\"0ahUKEwiHiMeGqvTQAhXHE5AKHWNFAL8QziAIkwQoADAO\">\n<div class=\"r-ia1T8YxiHanU\">\n<div class=\"kno-rdesc r-ieqZZ_TllaIs\">The Image Awards are\u00a0presented by the American National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to honor outstanding people of color in film, television, music, and literature.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mod\" data-md=\"30\" data-ved=\"0ahUKEwiHiMeGqvTQAhXHE5AKHWNFAL8QkCkIlQQoAjAP\">\u00a0Winners will be announced at the ceremony to take place on February 11, 2017, 5:00 PM PST<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nominees for the 2017\u00a0NAACP Image Awards have been announced. In the lone Gospel category the nominees are: Outstanding Gospel Album \u2013 (Traditional or Contemporary) Jericho: Tribe of Joshua\u00a0&#8211; Livre\u2019 (Glory 2 Glory Entertainment\/RAL) Myron Butler &amp; Levi On Purpose\u00a0&#8211; Myron Butler (Motown Gospel) One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[38,3348,1598],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10457,"href":"https:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10456\/revisions\/10457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}