By Ron Wynn NASHVILLE, TN — The score for the Pixar film “Soul” was among the winners this week as the ASCAP Screen Music Awards began a four-day virtual celebration. It was among the winners announced in the Composers’ Choice Awards, which are voted on by peers. The number of categories for the performing rights organization’s still fairly new division of awards voted by fellow songwriters and composers was expanded in this round, with documentary score and television theme of the year added for 2021. “Soul” added the ASCAP award as Film Score of the Year to its recent win…
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By Ron Wynn NASHVILLE, TN — Posthumous honors continue rolling in for Chadwick Boseman. His latest came Sunday night when he received the Best Performance in a Movie award at the MTV Movie & TV Awards. Boseman lost his fight against colon cancer in August of 2020 at 43, and has received multiple awards over the last year for his performance as Levee Green in Netflix’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” Yara Shahidi received he award on his behalf. Speaking on stage at the Palladium in Los Angeles, Shahidi said, “I’m so honored to accept this award on behalf of Chadwick…
By Ron Wynn NASHVILLE, TN — As Nashville SC prepares for its first road game this weekend, they hope to build off the momentum earned from finally getting a victory. After three disappointing draws, two of them against either expansion teams or clubs they were favored to beat, Nashville SC turned in a solid performance against a previously undefeated team. Their 2-0 win over the New England Revolution improved their record to 1-0-3, ad got them their first three-point result of the MLS season. The Revolution are 2-1-1. While Nashville SC hoped to get at least nine and possibly 12…
Many times aging veterans don’t get a chance to depart teams on their own terms. For every John Elway or Peyton Manning who gets to go out with a victory, many others are unceremoniously cut when teams decide they have reached a point where they are either not worth the money they’re making, or they can get the same thing for much less with a younger player. However some situations look worse than others, and few have looked as bad as the Los Angeles Angels last week with the release of Albert Pujols. This one has gotten messy quickly, and…
By Ron Wynn NASHVILLE, TN — Lloyd Price was not only a marvelous vocalist, he was someone well schooled in the rough and tumble worlds of business and commerce. Price, who enjoyed huge hits in the ‘50s with such songs as “Stagger Lee” and “Personality” passed last week at age 88. The New Orleans born artist began performing at a young age. He was discovered as a teenager performing his song “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” in clubs around the Crescent City. Specialty Records signed him and helped make “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” a hit in 1953. Price’s career was interrupted due to…
By Ron Wynn NASHVILLE, TN — After her blockbuster interview with him and his wife Megan Markle, Oprah Winfrey is teaming with Prince Harry on a new project. “The Me You Can’t See,” a mental health documentary series, premieres May 21 on Apple TV Plus. Co-creators and executive producers Winfrey and Harry will guide discussions about mental health and emotional well-being while opening up about their own mental health journeys and struggles. The series will spotlight a range of people from across the globe dealing with mental health issues. There will also be some high-profile guests. They include Lady Gaga,…
Unless you had been following his story all year, it’s highly unlikely that you knew who Kendrick Carmouche was. He certainly wasn’t a big name jockey and the horse he was riding in the Kentucky Derby Saturday Bourbonic was a 30-1 longshot. But Carmouche made history in the 147th Derby last weekend, even though his horse only finished 13th. That’s because he became the first Black jockey to race in the Derby since Kevin Krigger rode Goldencents in 2013. Earlier in the week Carmouche, a Louisiana native, talked about the importance of his racing there, saying he hoped to an…
By Ron Wynn NASHVILLE, TN — Despite last Friday’s announcement of multiple changes to the Grammy Awards, most notably eliminating the “secret” nomination-review committees, top R&B star The Weeknd announced this week that he will continue to withhold his music from consideration for any Grammy awards. However he did call the moves “an important start,” in a statement that was carried in multiple entertainment publications and on various websites. The end of the committees, as well as other changes to the process, are widely viewed as some of the biggest changes in how the Recording Academy selects Grammys in decades.…
There are some good things happening this off-season in the college basketball coaching ranks for both Black men and women. It seems now that schools are beginning to look not only at Black assistants working at major colleges but also those who’ve done well at HBCUs. Even thought there’s still nothing close to even in terms of the percentage of Black players vs. coaches, the numbers are improving, and some fresh faces are taking advantage of that. For example, Toyelle Wilson, who was head coach at Prairie View A&M, was hired by Southern Methodist. Semeka Randall Lay, who was a…
By Ron Wynn NASHVILLE, TN — The Vanderbilt Commodores are maintaining their high national ranking despite playing some of the toughest teams in college baseball. They took their second straight series against a Top 10 team last weekend, rallying from four runs down in the third game to defeat number four ranked Mississippi State 7-4. That 2-1 series victory follows the one two weekends ago on the road against then number five ranked Tennessee. Things don’t get any easier for Vanderbilt, as they hit the road against the 14th ranked Florida Gators for a weekend series April 30-May 2. Then…