The 2018 BET Awards took place Sunday night in Los Angeles, right smack dab in the middle of Pride month. The looks were strong all around, but no one did it like Janelle Monae. My girl dropped her characteristically monochrome suits to positively and literally embody the rainbow.
Anita Baker is someone who manages to be both a living legend and perpetually underrated. Her mid-‘80s heyday that yielded scores of hits and armfuls of Grammys gave way to quieter decades (to the extent that in the early aughts, she told the Washington Post she had called her manager and asked, “Why am I not a…
In a pre-recorded freestyle rap that played at the BET Hip Hop Awards Tuesday night, Eminem took aim at Donald Trump, an immensely insecure and powerful man with an IQ.
Sunday night’s BET Awards turned out to be largely uneventful, aside from three things: the Xscape reunion set, the New Edition tribute and the uncomfortable red-carpet confrontation between rappers the Migos and Joe Budden.
Nicki Minaj, née Onika Tanya Maraj, now holds the key to her native New York City borough. Melinda Katz, Queens Borough President, gifted the rapper this symbolic key in commemoration of her musical achievements.
Sunday night’s 2017 BET Awards were an occasion for all manner of dress, perhaps in part because its attendees were so varied: rappers mingled with actors mingled with award-winning journalists mingled with singers, and everyone seemed to be flying by the seat of their own unique dress codes.
A petition to get Jesse Williams fired from Grey’s Anatomy is circulating and is just over 4,500 signatures right now. The comments from its supporters are mostly about reverse racism.
After opening the BET Awards in iconic fashion on Sunday night, Beyoncé had to dip to London to prep for her international Formation tour. Tina Lawson said as much on stage while accepting her daughter’s award for Video of the Year, but not everyone believed her.
When Jesse Williams accepted the Humanitarian Award at the BET Awards on Sunday night, he spoke on behalf of black people and Black Lives Matter in one of the greatest acceptance speeches we’ve heard from a celebrity. Justin Timberlake was certainly inspired, though he should’ve expressed it better.
Beyoncé opened the 2016 BET Awards with a ferocious performance of “Freedom.”
Last night’s 35-hour-long BET Awards performance featured a reunion performance by Puff Daddy and the Family, which could have served as an overarching theme for the dress code: summer whites are so hot right now, and half the attendees could have headed straight to the Hamptons after the ceremony for a Diddy White…
It’s been a whirlwind few weeks for Kyemah McEntyre, a recent high school grad who’s got dreams of designing high fashion. She’s gone from being a bullied teen who’s always been called “ugly and angry,” to prom queen, to a red carpet couture designer in less than a month. And it’s only the beginning.
After delivering an acceptance speech during Sunday’s BET Awards that seemed to dress down rapper Iggy Azalea, Nicki Minaj hit Twitter to clarify her message on Wednesday. It’s about women’s rights, guys.
Last night, the BET Awards took place in the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles; many wonderful, talented humans were awarded for outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry.
During Sunday’s BET Awards, Nicki Minaj won the Best Female MC trophy and took time during her acceptance speech to dress down her competition. Considering her only contemporary chart-worthy rival is Iggy Azalea, it’s safe to say Iggy was the target of her shade (thrown while professing “no shade”).
Last night on the red carpet at the BET Awards, there were pretty dresses, interesting shoes, creative hairdos and Meagan Good's nipples. Let us not delay.
Ciara and Nicki Minaj released the video for their new song "I'm Out" during the BET Awards Sunday night. It features lots of skintight white body suits, a reference to Moscato because that's a drink black people like (haven't you heard?) and the two women doing what they do best: rapping and dancing.
In this week's TV roundup, a vampire and her maker breakup on True Blood, "Imma let you finish" comes full circle, the Alabama Shakes shake up Late Night and Sarah Palin sure loves her guns.
The fashion at the 2012 BET Awards — held last night in Los Angeles and hosted by Samuel L. Jackson — was hit and miss. For every classy, pretty ensemble, there was steaming heap of tacky.
At the BET awards last night, Bey, Jay, 'Ye and something called a Kim Kardashian sat together in a royal enclave and the photos of this momentous event have already been analyzed until the end of time. Beyoncé and Kim, who sat on the outside of their respective men, "made no effort to stretch across to chinwag." Kim…
