Five years ago today, the world said goodbye to the fearless artist who became country music's first Black star.

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 ...

Beyoncé never said she was releasing a country album. But what the Beyhive wants, the Beyhive gets. And it didn’t take long for her to make history as the first Black woman to top Billboard’s Hot ...

There is no American music without Black roots. From country-western, which draws upon banjo music from Africa, to rock 'n' roll—first electrified by a Black woman in 1938—every major American genre ...

Linda Martell is a country music trailblazer though she never became a household name. The release of Beyoncé's latest album could change that. Martell became the first female Black artist to crack ...

Country music lost a trailblazer five years ago, December 12, when Charley Pride, the first Black star in country music, died at age 86.

Tina Knowles and other prominent voices call out country music "gatekeeping" and Black cowboy erasure in recently released ...