Nashville-based entertainment writer Kristin M. Hall talked to leading and emerging Black voices in country music to weave a nicely textured, all-formats package on the genre’s difficult history with race and racism. The package moved the day after the Dixie Chicks changed their name to The Chicks, and became one of the day's most popular stories.
AP explores country music’s reckoning on race
Country rapper Breland, right, appears in a still image from his video for “My Truck.” Breland tells AP that it’s time for people to reimagine what country music can be: “It's impossible for me to remove my Blackness from my artistry ... especially in this space.”
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