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Kirk Franklin & Fred Hammond Along With Bishop T.D. Jakes to Appear TODAY in Special Edition of ‘Verzuz – The Healing’

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After this week with the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, by a former Minnesota police officer and the subsequent protests and riots throughout the country, on today, we need some comfort. In an effort to do so, gospel institutions Kirk Franklin & Fred Hammond will be on Verzuz today at 5 p.m. on Instagram. Bishop T. D. Jakes will speak briefly before the battle. On the IG announcement, you can hear the piercing song of 12-year-old Keedron Bryant, who sings, “I’m a young black man…Every day, I’m being hunted as prey…I just want to live…God, protect me.” Yes, please God…

See the Verzuz announcement and Keedron’s song below…

 

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BET Announces ‘SAVING OUR SELVES: A BET COVID-19 RELIEF EFFORT’ Special Airing TONIGHT at 8 P.M. EST

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BET recently announced comedian and actor Anthony Anderson as the fourth host of the upcoming “SAVING OUR SELVES: A BET COVID-19 RELIEF EFFORT,” special.  Anderson joins stars Kelly Rowland, Terrence J, and Regina Hall as host for the two-hour special broadcast. “SAVING OUR SELVES: A BET COVID-19 RELIEF EFFORT,” is set to air TODAY, Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 8 PM EST.

Performances include Alicia Keys with a special tribute to New York City, and a Gospel moment with Kirk Franklin featuring Fantasia, Jonathan McReynolds, Kelly Price, Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Le’Andria Johnson, and Melvin Crispell III.  Exclusive performances by John Legend, Usher, Jhene Aiko, Chloe X Halle, CeeLo Green, H.E.R., Ella  Mai, Jermaine Dupri, Ludacris, Swae Lee, Anthony Hamilton, Tyrese Gibson, Buju Banton, DJ D-Nice, SiR,  D Smoke, and Charlie Wilson.

Additional celebrity guest appearances will include  Tiffany Haddish, Ciara, Don Cheadle, Deon Cole, Angela Rye, Dr. Rheeda Walker, Charlamagne Tha God, Symone D. Sanders, DJ Khaled and Chance The Rapper.

Expanding the reach of the telecast, BET will simulcast the special across BET and BET Her domestically, as well as their channels internationally bringing awareness to over 90 million homes.  Additionally, BET will join forces with Bounce to help expand the audience to include free, over-the-air broadcast viewers with Bounce simulcasting “Saving Our Selves: A BET COVID-19 Relief Effort.”

Addressing the communities around the world, a global check-in segment for “BET Saving Our Selves: COVID-19 Relief Effort” will highlight how various regions around the globe are coping through COVID-19. BET Breaks’ International talent Nomalanga (South Africa), Flora Coquerel (France), and Jourdan Riane (UK) will report on how the pandemic is affecting their countries. British Hip Hop Artists behind the viral “Don’t Rush” social media challenge, Young T and Bugsy, and Idris Elba’s wife, Sabrina Elba, will make appearances as well.  Internationally, the show will be broadcast on Saturday, April 25 in the UK at 9:00 pm BST, Korea at 9:00 pm KST, Africa at 6:00 pm CAT, and France at 10:30 pm CEST.

The focus of the initiatives is to combat the racial disparities of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Recent findings have shown that Black Americans are being disproportionately harmed by the health and financial devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic. BET, in partnership with the NAACP, United Way Worldwide, leaders in the African American creative, civil rights and business communities will provide critical financial, educational and community support directly to the African Americans hardest hit by this crisis. Corporate brand donors who have generously contributed to the fund include Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Toyota, Salesforce, McDonald’s, AARP, Pine-Sol®, Morgan Stanley, TJ Maxx, Weight Watchers, and NBA.

You can now donate to the fund online via BET.com or by texting BETGives to 51555.  More information on BET’s partnership with UWW and additional extensions of our relief efforts are forthcoming. For further details, please visit BET.com/COVID19.

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BET ‘Sunday Best’ Season 10 Auditions To Be Held in Atlanta on Saturday!

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Returning to BET Network’s for season 10 is America’s most inspirational singing competition, “Sunday Best.” The well-established gospel show welcomes back Grammy AwardÂŽ-winning music legend Kirk Franklin as host. Returning for the second consecutive year as judges are gospel songstress and host of “Get Up Mornings,” Erica Campbell, and Grammy-AwardÂŽ nominated artists Kelly Price and Jonathan McReynolds.

Season 10 open call auditions will be held Saturday, February 15th in Atlanta, GA at The House of Hope (4650 Flat Shoals Parkway, Decatur, GA 30034; registration 6am-11am). Atlanta auditions will be filmed for television. Aspiring contestants should be age 18+ and should prepare to sing a song from the list below:

  1. Amazing Grace
  2. Blessed Assurance
  3. Have Thine Own Way, Lord
  4. His Eye is On The Sparrow
  5. I Need Thee Every Hour
  6. I Surrender All
  7. It Is Well With My Soul
  8. Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee
  9. Love Lifted Me
  10. Mary, Don’t You Weep
  11. Nothing But the Blood of Jesus
  12. O Come, All Ye Faithful (O Come Let Us Adore Him)
  13. Oh, How I Love Jesus
  14. Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior
  15. Tis So Sweet To Trust In Jesus
  16. What A Friend We Have In Jesus

Jesse Collins, CEO of Jesse Collins Entertainment (BET Awards, The New Edition Story), and Dionne Harmon (The Bobby Brown Story, Hip Hop Squares) serve as executive producers of season ten of Sunday Best along with executive producer and showrunner Jeannae Rouzan-Clay (Dear Mama, Black Girls Rock!), and Torrence Glenn (Celebration Of Gospel, Trumpet Awards) is co-executive producer.

For updates and more information about “Sunday Best”, please visit BET.com/SundayBest. Join the conversation on social media by logging on to our social media platforms using the hashtag: #BETSundayBest.

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