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The 2018 BET Awards Nominees Are …
Does it look like I was left off “Bad and Boujee”? Seems like it was forever ago, but it was just last year at the BET Awards red carpet that hip-hop trio Migos sat or, uhm, stood with Complex’s Everyday Struggle hosts DJ Akademiks, Nadeska Alexis and (*cough* former host) Joe Budden, thus creating a…
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Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky and Mike (aka RBRM) Is the Lemonade We Get From New Edition’s Lemons
The Temptations are one of my favorite groups of all time. But I have to caveat that: The version of the Temptations that features the “Death Lineup” (no pun intended, seriously) of David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, Paul Williams, Melvin Franklin and Otis Williams is my favorite. Even though that lineup is my favorite, the lineup…
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BET’s In Contempt Confronts America’s Unjust Legal System While Giving Us a Black Leading Lady
BET is shaking the table with its new series, In Contempt. The show stars Erica Ash as Gwen Sullivan, an opinionated and passionate public defender who sincerely cares about her clients—the downtrodden who need her legal services because they can’t get the legal help they deserve. This procedural drama is out to reveal something many…
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Robert Johnson Capes for Trump Over Black Unemployment Numbers (or Something)
America’s very first black billionaire out here caping for Donald Trump, ostensibly to finagle some deal that will make a very rich man richer. Or maybe he just likes being in proximity to power. On Friday the BET founder appeared on CNBC, saying that black folks should be dancing a little jig for the “growing…
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Black Journalists Organization Backs Robin Givhan Over Michelle Obama Piece
The National Association of Black Journalists wrote a letter Saturday in support of Washington Post journalist Robin Givhan after she wrote a piece on former first lady Michelle Obama’s talk at a BET event that many of the guests assumed was off-the-record. Givhan, a Pulitzer Prize winner, was invited to moderate a panel of fashion-industry…
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They Said It Was Private. She Said It Was on-the-Record. The Reality? It’s Complicated
In the nine years of BET Networks’ Leading Women Defined summit, Jeanine Liburd, chief marketing and communications officer at BET, had never seen anything like this. A journalist, Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion critic Robin Givhan of the Washington Post, was booted from this conference, a first for the gathering of professional women. These women, about 150…
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It’s Their Prerogative: The Bobby Brown Story Finds Its Whitney
For better or worse, no story about Bobby Brown would be complete without Whitney Houston, and vice versa. Now BET has found someone to play the iconic singer opposite its Bobby in the upcoming Bobby Brown Story. BET will bring on Gabrielle Dennis, who has appeared on The Game and, most recently, the Fox medical…
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Angela Rye Talks the State of the Black Union. Next Stop ‘the Black Party’?
The premiere of Angela Rye’s four-episode special for BET was a riff on President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union, wherein he continued to dip into his bag of cheap tricks, pulling out dog whistles and race-baiting to assure his “base” that he’s the white supremacist in chief. As usual, Rye, former general counsel…
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Exclusive: Auntie Maxine Will Have Some Choice Words for Trump During Angela Rye’s State of the Union on BET
Well, even if Tuesday’s State of the Union by President Donald Trump makes you roll your eyes into the very back of your head, there will be a reprieve, children. Political pundit Angela Rye, who has risen to become a prominent voice for a black community under siege, will break it all down during the…