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Black Opry creates a safe space for Black country music fans

Before Beyoncé’ released ‘Cowboy Carter,’ fed-up and frustrated fans built a community with musicians and industry pros

By Channing Hargrove

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The Black vanguard in white utopias

Country music speaks to white sentimentality, but Black women pioneer ‘and continue to pioneer’

By Tressie McMillan Cottom