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GRAMMY AWARDS Eliminate 'Secret Committees', Announce Major Voting Changes May 1, 2021 Comments ');var c=function(){cf.showAsyncAd(opts)};if(typeof window.cf !== 'undefined')c();else{cf_async=!0;var r=document.createElement("script"),s=document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];r.async=!0;r.src="//srv.clickfuse.com/showads/showad.js";r.readyState?r.onreadystatechange=function(){if("loaded"==r.readyState||"complete"==r.readyState)r.onreadystatechange=null,c()}:r.onload=c;s.parentNode.insertBefore(r,s)}; })(); The Recording Academy announced on Friday (April 30) that it has made significant cha...

Grammy statues photographed on Jan. 12, 2019. The Trustees seem to have decided that these nominations review committees have outlived their usefulness. In a bombshell move, the trustees of the Recording Academy voted Friday (April 30) to disband nominations review committees and let Grammy voters have the final say in all non-craft categories. The trustees met over Zoom to discuss this and proposals that were passed by the awards and nominations committee. In other key moves, the trustees voted to reduce the number of categories in which voters may vote from 15 to 10, add two categories (bes...

Finally, music superstars and former couple Harry Styles and Taylor Swift will each perform separately at the ceremony on March 14, 2021. The Grammy n

Miranda Lambert, Mickey Guyton, Maren Morris and more country and Americana artists are performing at the 2021 Grammy Awards on Sunday night (March 14), and Trevor Noah, the show's host, says their performances will take on a music festival-like feel. The COVID-19 pandemic means this year's event will look much different than Grammys past. "It's going to be multiple stages, everything is happening outdoors and socially distanced. It's almost taking on the feel of a music festival but designed for an audience at home, which is really cool," Noah, a comedian and late-night TV host, tells Bill...

Ex Parte Virginia was the third of three cases involving African American jury service that the Supreme Court decided on March 1, 1880. James D. Coles, a Pittsylvania County judge, was indicted on February 27, 1879, for refusing to allow African Americans to serve on juries. The federal grand juries that met in Danville and Lynchburg in February and March 1879 indicted judges from the following fourteen counties for violating the Civil Rights Act of 1875 by barring African Americans from jury service: Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell, Charlotte, Franklin, Fluvanna...