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Posted Monday 6/29/20 at 10:43PM EDT
BET Awards nailed the challenge of honoring Black artists virtually while reckoning with current events
This year's 20th BET Awards, simulcast on CBS for the first time, "had a difficult balance to achieve: It had...
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Posted Monday 6/29/20 at 10:58AM EDT
Black Lives Matter movement took center stage at the 20th BET Awards
This year's ceremony was dedicated to the anti-racism and anti-police brutality movement that has drawn widespread attention following George Floyd's...
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Posted Monday 6/29/20 at 10:58AM EDT
BET Awards mistakenly include former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown in its In Memoriam segment
"I couldn’t figure out why the phone was all lit up,” the 86-year-old Brown, who served as San Francisco mayor...
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Posted Friday 6/26/20 at 5:42PM EDT
BET renews Lena Waithe's Twenties
Waithe's semi-autobiographical comedy will be back for a second season after becoming a breakout hit for BET.
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Posted Friday 6/26/20 at 3:15AM EDT
Beyoncé to Receive 2020 BET Humanitarian Award
The 20th BET Awards Sunday will honor Beyoncé for her philanthropy work.
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Posted Tuesday 6/23/20 at 10:37AM EDT
Family Matters alum Darius McCrary's portrayal of James Brown on American Soul mocked on social media
“Why is Eddie Winslow playing James Brown"? wrote one Twitter user.
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Posted Friday 6/19/20 at 4:18AM EDT
Here's a roundup of Juneteenth programming
BET will celebrate Juneteenth on Friday with a “Juneteenth Freedom Day Marathon," AMC and IFC will present Sherman's Showcase Black...
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Posted Monday 6/15/20 at 11:23AM EDT
CBS to simulcast the BET Awards for the first time
The 20th BET Awards will also be the first on network television.
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Posted Thursday 6/11/20 at 1:49PM EDT
BET launches a $25 million “Content for Change" social justice initiative
BET says the iniative will "support the creation, distribution, marketing, and promotion of content aimed at ending systemic racism in...
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Posted Tuesday 6/02/20 at 3:27PM EDT
BET sets series of specials around racism and the George Floyd killing, invites Donald Trump and Joe Biden to a presidential forum on race
BET will mark the end of today's Blackout Tuesday with two hours of Finding Justice and A BET News Special:...
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Posted Wednesday 5/20/20 at 6:13PM EDT
Tyler Perry describes his plans to restart production on two shows as a "military effort"
The Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta is on the site of a decommissioned U.
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Posted Wednesday 5/20/20 at 1:45PM EDT
BET Awards will celebrate its 20th anniversary virtually
While BET has canceled the yearly three-day BET Experience that led up the awards show, the BET Awards will proceed...
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Posted Tuesday 5/19/20 at 4:49PM EDT
BET to air a tribute to Uptown Records founder Andre Harrell featuring Chris Rock, Jamie Foxx, Mariah Carey and more
The special, titled Mr.
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Tyler Perry plans to quickly film Sistas and The Oval this summer while sequestering casts and crews
Perry's two BET series could offer a preview of how American TV series will tackle filming in the coronavirus era.
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Posted Monday 5/11/20 at 5:46AM EDT
BET says its miniseries on Uptown Records is still in the works after founder Andre Harrell's death
The cable network announced the three-episode limited series Uptown on the hip-hop hitmaker last December.
