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    Commentary: At 2021 CMAs, country music is a diverse, inclusive family. IRL, not so much...

    by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times Nov 12, 2021 3 minutes

    Chris Stapleton probably would've cleaned up at Wednesday night's 55th CMA Awards even if his latest album was called "14 Songs of Music by a Guy." That it's actually titled "Starting Over" — well, you can bet the embattled Country Music Association felt especially good about rewarding that idea.

    Dogged no less than the Recording Academy in recent years by criticism of its attitude toward diversity and inclusion, the Nashville trade group had little chance of evading such scrutiny this year thanks to Morgan Wallen, whose use of the N-word in a video published in

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