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.
Not the BET Awards.
Broadcast live Sunday night from the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles, the cable network's 15th-anniversary blowout felt proudly connected to reality from the get-go, beginning with a fierce performance by rapper Kendrick Lamar, who stood atop a bombed-out police car to deliver his song "Alright" as tattered American flags waved around him.
Up next were the show's hosts, Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross, who mentioned Rachel Dolezal in a comedic bit about the experience of African Americans in show business. And then came the evening's first presenter, Laverne Cox, the pioneering transgender actress who stars on "Orange Is the New Black."
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