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A nonprofit news agency promoting social justice. Seeking answers to the question:
How do we make democracy work for the poor?
14 Feb 2012
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 in categories now eliminated, such as, Best R&B Performance and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
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