2022 Sentinel Awards POC Honorees

From Left To Right: Devery Jacobs, Lane Factor, Paulina Alexis and D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai - Reservation Dogs/FX

Honorees for the 2022 Sentinel Awards were announced on September 16, 2022. Reservation Dogs, Abbott Elementary, Harlem, A Million Things, Never Have I Ever, and Upload are among the television series set to be honored at the awards ceremony. The event will celebrate 12 series from broadcast, cable, and streaming that tackled powerful and timely topics including racism, mental health, and abortion. Hollywood, Health & Society (HH&S), a program from the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, will present the awards live and in person on October 25, 2022.

For more than 20 years, the Sentinel Awards have recognized exemplary achievements in TV storylines that inform, educate, and motivate viewers to make choices for healthier and safer lives. Honorees involving people of color are listed below alongside their honored topics.

• Reservation Dogs (FX)
  Season one body of work
  Recipient of the “Culture of Health Award”

• A Million Little Things (ABC)
  (Fresh Start) 
  Topic: Abortion

• Upload (Amazon)
  (Mind Frisk)
  Topic: Artificial intelligence

• Abbott Elementary (ABC)
  (Pilot)
  Topic: Economic disparities (comedy)

• Never Have I Ever (Netflix)
  (… Stalked My Own Mother)
  Topic: Mental health

• Harlem (Amazon)
  The Strong Black Woman
  Topic: Racism