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Beauty Guru Jackie Aina is the first-ever recipient of the YouTuber of the Year at the 49th annual NAACP Image Awards (check out a short clip of her acceptance speech here).
Aina, who has garnered almost two million subscribers on her YouTube channel, has been vocal in her support of diversity and representation in both the YouTube and Beauty communities. She most recently criticized Kylie Jenner for not sending samples of her new concealers to dark-skinned influencers to review and called out model Gigi Hadid for excluding brown shades from her makeup line back in November. According to Bustle, her fight for inclusivity extended to a partnership with Too Faced Cosmetics to expand their range of the Born This Way Foundation.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) partnered with Google, YouTube’s parent company, to create the inaugural award. The ceremony was hosted on Sunday, January 14 and honored outstanding work by Black people in television, film, literature and music.
You can watch the NAACP Image Awards live on TV ONE on January 15 at 9/8c.