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An accompanying album features artists including Allison Russell, Rhiannon Giddens and more.

For more than four decades the songwriter, New York Times best-selling author (The Wind Done Gone), and acclaimed educator Alice Randall has been one of the few Black female writers on Nashville’s Music Row, and the first to pen a #1 hit (Trisha Yearwood’s  "XXXs and OOOs"). And while she has seen her songs recorded by multiple generations of country artists - from Glen Campbell and Mo Bandy, to Marie Osmond and Yearwood - none of those artists looked like her. Until now.

The blues ace, poet and activist’s track previews ‘My Black Country,’ a forthcoming collection of songs penned by revered writer Alice Randall — all of which were originally cut by white mainstream country singers.

Here, in no particular order, are just a few of history’s most influential tomes—and how they made humanity look at things in a new light.

A trend among AI boosters of extending backgrounds misunderstands how creativity works. Sometimes you have to know when to stop.

"The Foxes of Harrow" (1946), a Southern historical romance by Black Irish-American author Frank Yerby (1916–1991), writes back to Margaret Mitchell’s bestselling novel, "Gone with the Wind" (1936). Although Yerby and Mitchell were both raised in Georgia during segregation by mothers of Irish descent, their socially assigned racial identities created divergent approaches to representing the pre- and post-Civil War South in their respective novels.

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Sarah Churchwell’s book is a 458-page indictment of Gone with the Wind and its portrayal of slavery. Frankly, should we give a damn?

Garth Brooks honored the late Charley Pride with the RIAA Lifetime Achievement Award at the National Museum of African American Music on Monday night (Oct. 25).