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Protest Against Grammy's for Undermining Diversity by Cutting 31 Musical Categories from Awards Show

Picture: www.kplu.org Video Dozens of musicians demonstrated outside the Grammy Awards on Sunday protesting the Recording Academy’s decision to eliminate dozens of ethnic music award categories, including Hawaiian, Haitian, Cajun, Latin jazz, contemporary blues and regional Mexican. Some protesters see racial bias in the revisions, others see them as harmful to low-budget indie labels. Under the Grammy’s restructured categories, Whitney Houston would not have won four out of her six Grammys. They were...