Lifetime Achievement Award

Sean “Diddy” Combs will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2022 BET Awards. Jesse Collins—BET Awards Executive Producer—declared, “Puff’s contributions to culture transcend Hip-Hop.” Earlier this year, Diddy launched a new R&B label, Love Records, and is slated to release a new album under Motown. Past winners including Whitney Houston, Prince, Queen […]

At the 21st Annual BET Awards, Megan Thee Stallion won “Best Female Hip Hop Artist,” “Best Collaboration,” “Viewer’s Choice” and “Video of the Year.” Queen Latifah received this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award for her “amazing success” throughout her decades-long career. Her “sisters in rap” including Lil Kim, Rapsody, MC Lyte and Monie Love all took […]

On the 52nd anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination (April 4, 1968), Rev. Lowery’s family gathered for his small, private graveside service at Westview Cemetery in Atlanta, GA. Lowery worked with King to start the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Lowery’s casket was carried in a horse-drawn caisson that was attended by men wearing top […]