 For the role of Eve , Ross received eight nominations for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series and won at the 38th NAACP Image Awards . Despite Passions ' focus on African @-@ American female characters like Eve , Lynette Rice of Entertainment Weekly wrote that the show failed to attract the " hard @-@ to @-@ reach audience [ of ] African @-@ American women " ; according to Kalouria , " Quite frankly , many of them aren 't aware Passions is even on . " 
