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If Harvey Mason Jr. has any say in the matter, the future of the Grammy Awards and the Recording Academy under whose auspices the 63-year-old Grammys are presented will be all about greater inclusion, transparency, diversity and equity.
Each is imperative for the music world’s most prestigious and comprehensive annual awards show, whose audience-free 2021 edition will be televised March 14 by CBS TV and will be the first to be he held without an audience. The academy has been increasingly criticized in recent years for not doing more to broaden its membership base. Likewise, the Grammys have taken flak for failing to adequately honor hip-hop and Black and women artists in its most prestigious categories: Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Song of the Year.