Mickey Guyton’s “Black Like Me” earned a Grammy nomination in 2020, christening her as the first Black woman to be nominated for “Best Country Solo Performance.” (“These are valid ...

Other Black women artists in soul and R&B who have recorded country music include Millie Jackson (on her album “Lil Bit Country”), Anita Pointer (with her hit “Too Many Times”) and The ...

Black women making inroads in country music. It's significant that seven Black women held this conversation at the Grand Ole Opry House. Linda Martell was the first Black woman to make the country ...

For Black women in country music, Linda Martell’s trailblazing career is both an inspiration and a cautionary tale. In 1969, she became the first Black woman to play the Grand Ole Opry and, ...

These days, Adell is a rising country music star. And at the Grammys on Feb. 2, she was part of a watershed moment for Black ...

Beyoncé, who recently debuted two country-infused songs from her upcoming album, has become the first Black woman to top Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. The singer’s banjo-heavy track ...

Hear From the 4 Black Country Women on Beyoncé’s ‘Blackbiird’: ‘We Were Having a Little Destiny’s Child Moment’ "It just sounded so beautiful, angelic and powerful." ...

Alice Randall was the first Black woman to co-write a No. 1 country hit, Trisha Yearwood's "XXX's and OOO's", and wrote about her achievement in her book "My Black Country." Simon & Schuster/Atria ...

An Oklahoma country station made news this week when it briefly refused to play a Beyoncé song. It's a resonant tale for the Black and women musicians who have tried to crack the format for decades.