BET Experience 2014: Free offerings, OutKast, the Roots draw fans
Depending on what you wanted to spend, the three-day BET Experience at L.A. Live meant live music from urban chart-toppers, copious celebrity shoulder rubbing or entry into a highly rated awards show....
View ArticleWill Smith pays tribute to Jada Pinkett Smith at BET's 'Black Girls Rock'
Will Smith sweetly paid tribute to Jada Pinkett Smith, his wife of 20 years, during BET's "Black Girls Rock" special. The show, which aired Sunday and honored black women, drew a star-studded audience...
View ArticleBET Experience 2015: Festival to kick off with free concert
Before Nicki Minaj, Kendrick Lamar, Ice Cube, Miguel and the Roots headline the 2015 BET Experience at L.A. Live next week, the network will kick things off with a free concert. Former "American Idol"...
View ArticleBET to honor Janet Jackson with new 'Icon' award
BET will honor Janet Jackson with a newly instated achievement honor during its annual awards show on Sunday, the network announced on Tuesday. The pop diva will be honored with the inaugural Ultimate...
View ArticleA guide to BET Experience shows that are worth catching
The BET Experience has never lacked for ambition. There are headlining concerts, late-night shows, seminars, celebrity panels, fashion shows and more sights and sounds revolving around the network's...
View ArticleBET Experience 2015: Music Matters campaign spotlights little-known artists
Before artists like J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar and Jessie J were selling out shows worldwide, they were musicians clamoring for their big break. Through BET's Music Matters campaign, they received a...
View ArticleBET Awards moments through the years
Launched in 2001, the BET Awards paved the way for the network to launch other programs that celebrate black achievement. Here, we highlight a few of the show's memorable moments.
View ArticleWhy the BET Awards are still essential to the black pop culture zeitgeist
When BET launched its awards show in 2001, it was one of many music-centric telecasts that doled out awards and irreverence equally. There were MTV's Video Music Awards, American Music Awards and...
View ArticleBET Experience 2015: Nicki Minaj fails to impress
Nicki Minaj has come a long way since her last headlining tour. In the three years since her debut outing, which mostly brought her to theaters, the rapper has further cemented herself as the reigning...
View Article2015 BET Experience: Black Lives Matter takes center stage
At the end of a week full of celebratory moments -- Supreme Court decisions affirming marriage equality, public housing and affordable healthcare and the removal of Confederate flags in pockets of the...
View ArticleBET Experience 2015: Erykah Badu, Janelle Monae talk black hair, hip-hop
In an industry rife with rules and expectations, Janelle Monae and Erykah Badu purposefully stand out. Self-described as "wonder twins," the two artists make socially conscious and sonically unique...
View ArticleBET Experience: N.W.A, Kendrick Lamar capture L.A. hip-hop history
How sad that Ice Cube, MC Ren and DJ Yella can reunite in 2015 to perform N.W.A's best-known (and unprintable) anti-police anthem and have so much new footage of brutality against young people of...
View ArticleHow the BET Awards made other shows look irrelevant
More often than not, awards shows work to keep the outside world outside, their objective to create a kind of safe space for the self-absorption that keeps Hollywood running. Not the BET Awards....
View Article150,000+ celebrate black music and more at BET Experience
By the time the BET Awards went live from the Microsoft Theater at L.A. Live on Sunday night, more than 150,000 fans had already gotten a taste of the event through the network's four-day BET...
View ArticleCelebrities on BET Awards red carpet curate Black Music Month playlist
Music made and performed by black artists is unique. It carries a special vibe that is at once both classic and futuristic. It's why hip-hop was named the most important revolution in pop music and...
View ArticleBET Awards 2015: Politics and nostalgia make it worth watching again
If you missed the spectacle of the BET Awards, which aired live Sunday night from Microsoft Theater, it was one of the network's best-produced telecasts -- and one that was powerful and electrifying...
View ArticleJanet Jackson returns to the spotlight with tribute | BET Awards 2015
Janet Jackson accepted the Ultimate Icon: Music Dance Visual Award at the 2015 BET Awards. And BET enlisted Ciara, Jason Derulo and Tinashe, who’s been compared to Jackson, to honor the 49-year-old...
View ArticleDiddy falls onstage; Rihanna duct-tapes Floyd Mayweather's mouth | BET Awards...
Diddy took a tumble at the 2015 BET Awards while celebrating the 20th anniversary of his record label company, Bad Boy Records. Rihanna also made headlines when she duct-taped Floyd Mayweather's mouth...
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