She created a program to honor Black artistic success in the 1960s. But she spent decades trying to get its organizers to ...

Ms. Vaz was one of only a few Black stuntwomen working in Hollywood at the time, and she was part of a generation of Black ...

Best Costume Design of a Musical (Tony Awards) for Paradise Square; Outstanding Costume Design for a Play (Drama Desk Awards) for for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is ...

Toni Vaz reportedly wasn’t allowed ... she prompted the founding of the NAACP Image Awards to provide a marquee awards ceremony for people of color in entertainment — and encourage both ...

In 2019, Ali Stroker became the first wheelchair-using actor to appear on Broadway and be nominated for and win a Tony Award ...

Actress Toni Vaz, a stunt performer who also founded the NAACP Image Awards, has died at age 101, according to her ...

Book lovers, listen up: It’s nearly time for the literary world’s most coveted night – the 2024 National Book Awards ... literature and young people’s literature. The winning titles ...

By Chris Gardner Toni Vaz ... as models to work the ceremony. The awards show, which continues to this day, celebrates the accomplishments of people of color in media and entertainment and ...

Toni Vaz, an actor and activist who created ... Vaz, with ambitions to create an awards ceremony for people of color, founded the NAACP Image Awards to honor her peers while encouraging studios ...

Toni Vaz, an actor and activist who created the NAACP Image Awards, died on Oct. 4 in Woodland Hills, Calif. She was 101. Vaz’s parents immigrated to the U.S. from Barbados and she was one of four ...

Toni Vaz, an actor-turned-pioneering stunt ... Eager to begin a prestigious awards ceremony for people of color, she founded the NAACP Image Awards to honor her peers and encourage studios and ...