Beyoncé was honored at the 20th annual BET Awards tonight with the Humanitarian Award in honor of her BeyGOOD initiative . In her acceptance speech, she spoke to her fellow Black Americans when she encouraged them to keep up the work to "change and dismantle a racist an unequal system." Before Beyoncé spoke, Michelle Obama honored "[her] girl" as someone who is "always turning up, looking out, and making us all a little bit better, a little more fierce." She was also honored in a tribute video by her mother, Tina Lawson, Tyler Perry, Ivy McGregor (her director of social responsibility), Trayvon Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, and more.
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