BET Experience 2015 | Full coverage
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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.
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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 enough to blow away its many peers.
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By the time the BET Awards went live from the Microsoft Theater at L.A.
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Launched in 2001, the BET Awards paved the way for the network to launch other programs that celebrate black achievement.
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Held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
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Janet Jackson accepted the Ultimate Icon: Music Dance Visual Award at the 2015 BET Awards.
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Diddy took a tumble at the 2015 BET Awards while celebrating the 20th anniversary of his record label company, Bad Boy Records.
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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 color to project onstage.
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In an industry rife with rules and expectations, Janelle Monae and Erykah Badu purposefully stand out.
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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 South -- political commentator Marc Lamont Hill cautioned a panel audience Saturday night at the Los Angeles Convention Center not to rejoice just yet.
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Nicki Minaj has come a long way since her last headlining tour.
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The BET Experience has never lacked for ambition.
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Depending on what you wanted to spend, the three-day BET Experience at L.A.
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Will Smith sweetly paid tribute to Jada Pinkett Smith, his wife of 20 years, during BET’s “Black Girls Rock” special.
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BET will honor Janet Jackson with a newly instated achievement honor during its annual awards show on Sunday, the network announced on Tuesday.
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Before Nicki Minaj, Kendrick Lamar, Ice Cube, Miguel and the Roots headline the 2015 BET Experience at L.A.
