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BET Presents “Justice Now: A BET Town Hall,” Sunday, June 7

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Justice Now: A BET Town Hall

BET continues to engage audiences on the issue of social justice with the primetime BET News special “JUSTICE NOW: A BET Town Hall.” Hosted by Marc Lamont Hill, this compelling conversation will assemble a diverse panel of voices, including activists and politicians to address systemic racism, and ways American society can use the global pain and the protest over the death of George Floyd to create meaningful and lasting change. “JUSTICE NOW: A BET Town Hall” will air SUNDAY, JUNE 7 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on BET.

The “JUSTICE NOW” town hall panel will include interviews and commentary from the founder of voting rights group Fair Fight Stacey Abrams, anti-racism activist and teacher Jane Elliot, activist and co-founder of Campaign Zero Brittany Packnett, Color of Change President Rashad Robinson, Princeton University Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American studies Imani Perry, Rutgers University scholar and activist Brittney Cooper, various youth activists, and others.

“JUSTICE NOW: A BET Town Hall,” a timely discussion that will give voice to the collective grief, anger, fear, needs, and hopes of our community, premieres Sunday at 8PM on BET.

Watch All Six Episodes of BET’s Black Panther Animated Series

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BET has released all six episodes of their animated Black Panther series.

Part of Marvel Knights Animation the series launched on the Australian children’s channel ABC3 in January 2010 and on BET in the United States in November 2011. Each of the six episodes was 20 minutes in length.

Developd by Reginald Hudlin and directed by Mark Brooks and Jon Schnepp, the series featured Djimon Hounsou as Black Panther/T’Challa, Stan Lee as General Wallace, Kerry Washington as Princess Shuri, Alfre Woodard as Dondi Reese, Queen Mother, Carl Lumbly as Uncle S’Yan, Jill Scott as Storm, and Stephen Stanton as Klaw.

Additional voices included Jonathan Adams as T’Chaka, JB Blanc as Black Knight, Male Cannibal, and Batroc the Leaper, David Busch as Everett K. Ross, Phil LaMarr as T’Shan, Peter Lurie as Juggernaut, Phil Morris as W’Kabim, Vanessa Marshall as Female Cannibal, Nolan North as Cyclops and Nightcrawler, Adrian Pasdar as Captain America, Kevin Michael Richardson as Wolverine and Historical Black Panther 1, and Rick D. Wasserman as Radioactive Man.