The list of nominees for the 2025 NAACP Image Awards includes several works or creators with ties to Alabama, including a writer who contributed to the hit Netflix series “Bridgerton.”

The NAACP unveiled the list of nominees earlier this week. The main awards broadcast will air Feb. 22 on BET and CBS, though the presentation of some awards will be livestreamed on Feb. 21 on the Image Awards website.

Alabama connections among the nominees include:

Lauren Gamble – A nominee for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series for her work on the “Bridgerton” episode “Old Friends.”

The Mobile County Public School System has celebrated the fact that Gamble is a 2010 graduate of John L. LeFlore Magnet High School. According to the Internet Movie Database, she has worked as a writer’s assistant on multiple episodes of the ABC series “How to Get Away with Murder” and as a crew member on the Netflix miniseries “Inventing Anna,” where she was a creative assistant to Shonda Rimes. She also wrote a 2022 graphic novel about the life of Josephine Baker.

The good news is that “Bridgerton” is among the most-nominated shows in line for Image Awards, with five. The bad news for the show is that the five are spread across just two categories. Azia Squire and Geetika Lizardi are nominated in the same category as Gamble, for other episodes. Adjoa Andoh and Golda Rosheuvel both are nominees for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

André Holland – A nominee for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture for his role in “Exhibiting Forgiveness.”

Holland grew up in Bessemer and has extensive credits as a film and stage actor, including roles in the TV series “Terminator Zero” and “The Big Cigar.” In “Exhibiting Forgiveness” he plays a painter whose life is shaken up by a visit from his estranged father.

Fellow nominees include John David Washington for “The Piano Lesson” and Martin Lawrence for “Bad Boys: Ride or Die.”

“Barracoon Adapted for Young Readers: The Story of the Last Black Cargo” – A nominee for Outstanding Literary Work – Youth/Teens

“Barracoon” is a work by Zora Neale Hurston that depicts her encounters with Cudjoe “Kazoola” Lewis, a prominent figure in the Africatown community founded near Mobile by survivors of the slave ship Clotilda. The book includes Lewis’ vivid descriptions of the slave raid that ended his peaceful life in Africa, and the hardships he and other Clotilda survivors endured. This version is adapted by Ibram X. Kendi with illustrations by Jazzmen Lee-Johnson and published by Amistad Books for Young Readers.