This Week in Blackness: BET Doesn't Care About Black People
After the death of Michael Jackson, BET tried to help console the world and especially Black People about the his death. They failed miserably.
After the death of Michael Jackson, BET tried to help console the world and especially Black People about the his death. They failed miserably.
AP | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — The BET Awards turned into an impromptu Michael Jackson tribute and preliminary ratings show that it will have the event's biggest au...
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 12.29.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — BET and TV One, the television networks aimed primarily at a black audience, haven't paid much attention to presidential inauguration...
Danny Groner | Posted 11.11.2008 | Entertainment
I expected the rapper to play a few songs and then to call it a night. Instead, T-Pain gave the crowd what they wanted but couldn't have expected.
New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 11.06.2008 | Media
Anchoring a special report on Black Entertainment Television on Wednesday morning, Jeff Johnson introduced a reporter stationed in Atlanta, Jina Johns...
USA Today | Steve Jones | Posted 08.20.2008 | Media
BET's influential fan-voted video countdown show, 106 & Park, celebrates its 2,000th episode tonight (6 ET/PT) with guests who include Jennifer Hudson...
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 08.13.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — BET starts a weekly news program on Friday described as a cross between Keith Olbermann and Bill Maher with a black perspective. Cal...
Politico | Michael Calderone | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media
Black Entertainment Television announced today that they would be adding a new weekly political talk show -- The Truth with Jeff Johnson -- starting A...
Jerry Weinstein | Posted 06.02.2008 | Media
Think of it as the Big Bang of Video.
Tavis Smiley | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
I had no idea that my dear friend Tom Joyner was going to share with you Friday morning what we had just discussed barely 12 hours earlier Thursday evening.
Chris Weigant | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
We haven't done a contest here in a while, so I'm going to open the betting window today on the outcome of the Democratic race. To play, just post a ...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.20.2008 | Politics
Younger black activists and elected officials are unlikely to feel any loyalty to the Clintons, are engaged by a post-baby-boom candidate and feel more in sync with Obama on the issues.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 01.18.2008 | Media
Matthews like so many other yakking heads has gorged off the Hillary loathe industry. The industry has been by far the biggest growth industry in recent American politics.
New York Times | Katharine Q. Seelye | Posted 01.13.2008 | Politics
Robert L. Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television, who is campaigning today in South Carolina with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, just...
New York Times | Felicia R. Lee | Posted 11.05.2007 | Media
Wearing white T-shirts with red stop signs and chanting "BET does not reflect me, MTV does not reflect me," protesters have been gathering every Satur...
New York Times | Felicia Lee | Posted 11.04.2007 | Business
Wearing white T-shirts with red stop signs and chanting "BET does not reflect me, MTV does not reflect me," protesters have been gathering every Satur...
Princella Smith | Posted 10.08.2007 | Entertainment
In BET's Hip Hop vs. America forum, rappers pleaded their cases against charges that they are misogynists and gang bangers with horrible influence on America's youth.
Washington Post | Paul Farhi | Posted 09.24.2007 | Home
Black Entertainment Television is 27 years old -- old enough, its top executives say, to start acting all grown up. The Washington-based cable networ...
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Elon James White | Posted 07.02.2009 | Media