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UPDATED Tuesday, February 24, 9:55 a.m. EST — Watch above starting 10:00 a.m. EST: The White House honors HBCU Champions of Change. Earlier: Despite the distressing state of historically black colleges and universities, there are individuals working within the education institutions who are working hard to drive change. Tomorrow, the White House will honor faculty […]

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A few months ago Hillary Clinton came under fire after she refused to comment on the protests that took place in Ferguson following the death of Michael Brown. Now, the former First Lady is breaking her silence and is showing support for African Americans who never seem to get justice from the institutions supposedly formed to uphold […]

Yesterday, on a very special edition of 106 & Park, the focus was on recent events surrounding the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, featuring an interview with President Obama. (Well, they teased an interview with President Obama throughout the show only to build towards a BET News special that basically reran much of what we had already watched via […]

Politics

It’s been a week since a Staten Island grand jury decided not to convict the cop who killed Eric Garner, and racial tensions in the country still remain high. In a recent interview with BET, President Obama discussed race relations in America and what we need to do to move forward. The one-on-one with Jeff […]

Biz/Media

BET Responds To Complaints About Lack Of Credentials For Black Media At 2014 Awards Show In an exclusive story published on The Huffington Post, Tanya Young Williams says “[i]t was terribly disappointing to learn that BET snubbed one of the most respected photographers in the business, and quite possibly the oldest Black photographer still working Hollywood’s red carpets.” […]

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Chris Rock Interviews White People at a Monster Truck Rally About BET The highlight of the currently airing BET Awards so far was this reel of Chris Rock interviewing white people at a monster truck rally about BET, the BET Awards, and black music. Watch. Obama: Congress Doesn’t Do Anything ‘Except Block Me And Call […]

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The former host of ‘106th + Park’, Rocsi Diaz, is making her directorial debut in “The Secrets of Strangers,” a public service announcement that chronicles undocumented immigrants who share their illegal status with American strangers. It is the first to premiere from a three part Youtube series launched by Welcome.us, a nonprofit organization, that’s celebrating […]

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“Get Your Laugh On” BET Brings “Comic View” Back “Comic View on BET coming at you six nights a week, get your laugh on…” I cannot tell you how much joy that show brought to my life as a kid. That was practically family programming in my house. And the jokes told on “Comic View” […]

Television, radio show, and Internet diva to the tenth power, B. Scott (pictured), who is openly gay, is reportedly suing mega-network BET because he claims to have been treated poorly behind the scenes at the company’s most-recent BET Awards. According to Scott, the BET powers-that-be only allowed him to participate in their on-air red carpet […]

If a new poll commissioned by BET founder and business magnate Robert Johnson is any indication, the myth of a monolithic Black America has been shattered and one-size-fits-all Black leadership has gone the way of the cowboy — just replace rodeos with rallies. The Zogby Analytics poll,  aptly titled, “Black Opinions in the Age of Obama,” […]

Entertainment

The premiere of BET’s “Real Husbands of Hollywood” is off to a hilarious start! With Kevin Hart as the lead character of a group of men which includes Nelly, Boris Kodjoe, Robin Thicke, Duane Martin, Nick Cannon, and J.B. Smoove, RHOH is shaping up to be the funniest reality show that we’ve seen in a […]

Since actors Tia Mowry and Pooch Hall’s sudden and unexplained departure from BET’s hit dramedy “The Game,” the show’s producers have been on the prowl for talent that would replace the now former series’ stars.  Enter actress Lauren London, who has been added to the cast of the program reports TVLine.  “The Game” which will enter its sixth […]