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BET Networks on Thursday annonced that Grammy-winning R&B artist Anita Baker, as well as six humanitarian heroes, will be honored at Sunday’s BET Awards.
In a departure from previous years, the BET Awards will honor six people for the Humanitarian Award. The honorees were chosen after exhibiting bravery and strength in 2018, according to the cabler. The recipients include Waffle House hero James Shaw Jr.; March for Our Lives speaker Naomi Wadler; National Student Walk-Out Day participant Justin Blackmon; journalist Shaun King; Parkland, Florida, hero Anthony Borges; and Mamoudou Gassama, the man who saved a 4-year-old by climbing a set of balconies like Spider-Man in Paris.
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