Actress and comedian Amanda Seales is hosting the 20th Annual BET Awards on Sunday.
Seales admitted that she hasn't taken the offer to host the iconic awards show lightly and that she's been working hard on fine tuning her opening address to the viewers who watch this Sunday. The comedian continued that she's planning to"authentically" speak to her show's viewers regarding"the Black experience, past, present, and future" during her opening monologue.
"I need to be thoughtful and I always am, but really making sure that I'm not taking anything for granted in terms of what this stage means at this time. When I say 'at this time' I don't just mean about the uprising," explained Seales."But about the fact that BET is celebrating 40 years. It's the 20-year anniversary of the BET Awards itself.
Below, read up on what you need to know about Amanda Seales ahead of her big night at the BET Awards.Before making her mark as a comedian and actress, Seales had a brief stint as an MTV Video Jockey on MTV2's, but left after one season due to creative differences between her and the show's producers.
"I’m not in a space where I can, as a full Black woman, have my voice and my co-workers also have their voices, and where the people at the top are not respecting the necessity for Black voices to be at the top too," said Seales regarding her decision to leave."It doesn’t feel good to my soul to be at a place where I cannot speak to my people the way they need to be spoken to and where the people who are speaking to me in disparaging ways are not being handled.
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