Taraji P. Henson, Janelle Monoe and extra tackle Roe v. Wade at BET Awards

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Taraji P. Henson opened the 2022 BET Awards addressing each the Supreme Court docket overturning Roe v. Wade and gun violence.

Henson first thanked opening performer Lizzo for pledging $1 million to Deliberate Parenthood earlier than utilizing the singer’s music titled, “About Rattling Time” to make some extent.

“It’s about rattling time we step into our energy,” Henson stated. “It’s about rattling time we speak about the truth that weapons have extra rights than a lady. It’s a tragic day in America.”

“A weapon that may take lives has extra energy than a lady who can provide life if she chooses to,” Henson added.

That sentiment was on the minds of many ladies within the leisure trade world wide. On the Glastonbury music competition in England over the weekend, Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish and several other different artists blasted the Supreme Court docket’s ruling on Friday, which overturned a lady’s constitutional proper to finish a being pregnant after almost half a century.

On the BET Awards, singer and actress Janelle Monáe offered the primary award of the night time, finest feminine/R&B artist, and hailed Black artists - girls particularly.

“Proudly owning our fact and expressing ourselves freely and unapologetically in a world that tries to manage and police our our bodies, my physique and our choices,” she stated. “My determination. F*** you, Supreme Court docket.”

Jazmine Sullivan received the award and through her acceptance speech addressed the boys of the world.

“It’s a tough time proper now for us [women] and I wish to communicate on to the boys,” Sullivan stated. “We'd like y’all. We'd like y’all to face up for us, arise with us. In case you’ve ever benefited from a lady making one of many hardest choices of her life, which is to terminate a being pregnant, that you must be standing with us.”

“This isn't only a girl’s difficulty,” she stated. “That is all people’s difficulty. And we'd like you greater than ever.”