In 1992, Dr. Cleve Francis, a 47-year-old Black singer, songwriter and cardiologist, was a Top 10 Country Music Television video countdown charting performer. Three decades later, Rissi Palmer, a ...

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum recently celebrated the release of the extended box set and FREE online experience,"From Where I Stand: the Black Experience in ...

Every new year, I follow a tradition started by former Orlando Sentinel columnist Charley Reese who believed that, if a newspaper columnist is going to tell you what he thinks all year long, he should ...

Though there has been Black participation, involvement and advocacy for country music since before it was called “country music,” for decades a perception lingered that country was almost exclusively ...