45th Annual NAACP Image Awards Kept Us “Happy”

Host Anthony Anderson and in-show announcer Dennis Haysbert at the NAACP 45th Annual Image Awards (February 22, 2014)

Awards show host Anthony Anderson kept the energy going, noting off the bat that Blacks have “started at the bottom,” yet we haven’t stayed there — that we’ve only risen and will continue to. Anderson pointed to the recent cover of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood issue, which has never had that many shades of Blackness. Ever. Anthony’s jokes then shifted to the troubled white people of last year — Justin Bieber, Paula Deen, and Miley Cyrus.