There are parties and there are par-tays. By the time Aretha Franklin threw off her wig, Black Entertainment Television’s ninth Walk of Fame was officially an Event. The Queen of Soul was honoured Saturday at BET’s annual black-tie gala at the network’s Northeast Washington headquarters with performances by Mary J. Blige, Seal, Alicia Keys, Norah Jones, Chaka Khan, Ronald Isley, Jaheim, Eddie and Gerald Levert and others. They throw the word ‘diva’ around real loose,” Khan told her. “But you’re the only diva.” The show, which raised $400,000 for the United Negro College Fund, will be broadcast Oct. 28.

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