2018 BET Awards to Honor Anita Baker Along With 6 Humanitarian Heroes
The annual BET Awards will celebrate the best in music, movies and sports. Eight-time Grammy-winning R&B legend Anita Baker will be presented with BET's Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2018 ceremony on Sunday, hosted by Jamie Foxx . Baker is regarded as a trailblazer in soul and R&B, with the tracks "Giving You the Best That I Got" and "Sweet Love" hitting the Billboard Hot 100 top 10. Her towering voice and soulful love songs produced four No. 1s on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart, including Rhythm of Love, Giving You the Best That I Got, My Everything and Rapture. Earlier this year Baker announced her retirement and is currently touring through her farewell concert series, which you can buy tickets to here. BET will honor six humanitarian heroes for their bravery in 2018. James Shaw Jr., who disarmed the Waffle House shooter; 11-year-old March for Our Lives s...