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Prince Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award At 2010 BET Awards

On Sunday evening (June 27th), Prince was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 BET Awards.  He also was treated to a rousing medley of some of his greatest hits by the all-star lineup of Janelle Monae, Esperanza Spalding, Alicia Keys, and Patti LaBelle.

Here's his acceptance speech, which followed the musical tribute:

Mya To Compete On "Dancing With The Stars"

On Monday (August 17th), recording artist Mya was named as a contestant for the upcoming season of ABC's Dancing With The Stars.

Eartha Kitt (1927 - 2008)

Actress and singer Eartha Kitt - perhaps best known for her role as Catwoman in the Batman TV series, and someone who blazed a trail for other actresses of color - has died, according to her publicist:

Singer, actress Eartha Kitt dies at 81

CNN.com

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/12/25/eartha.kitt.obit/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

DOCUMENTARY: Calling all Beige people!

According to NewsBusters.org, CNN's Veronica De La Cruz (American Morning) is looking for biracial people who are planning to attend the Obama inauguration to possibly interview for a documentary she's putting together:

CNN's Veronica De La Cruz Seeking Biracial Interviewees Attending The Inauguration

by Ken Shepherd, NewsBusters.org

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2008/12/10/cnns-veronica-de-la-cruz-seeking-biracial-interviewees-attending-inaug

TV One: "UnSung," featuring DeBarge

For those of you who missed it, here's the profile on 80's R&B group DeBarge that recently aired on UnSung, a new TV One series that's very similar to VH1's Behind The Music:

Election Night Party (with special guest Ludacris) in St. Louis, MO

Beige World editor in chief David Burnett gives his impressions of Election Night at EXO in St. Louis, MO.

QUESTION OF THE DAY: Forced to choose a particular race as your identity?

Here's an interesting CNN blog post from Grace Gibson - the 16-year-old biracial daughter of actress Lynn Whitfield - in response to the treatment of the subject of interracial marriages and multiracial children by the recent CNN series Black In America:

I am neither black nor white.  I'm both
by Grace Gibson, CNN.com (Anderson Cooper 360 Blog)
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/07/25/i-am-neither-black-nor-white-im-both/

Here's today's Beige World Question of the Day:

If you're Beige (multiracial), have you ever been made to feel like you were forced to choose a particular race as your identity?

Please share your comments by submitting a post.