Episode 51: My Black Country: A Conversation With Alice Randall

Sistah Girls, I’m so excited to have living legend Alice Randall on the podcast!Alice Randall is the author of My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Present, and Future. https://amzn.to/4eKEWIzRandall is the first Black woman to write a number-one country hit. The single “XXX’s and OOO’s (An American Girl)” was released in 1994 by country music singer Trisha Yearwood. Over the years she has penned several Top 10 and Top 40 country songs, in addition to that, Randall is a New York Times best-selling novelist, educator, and food activist.A graduate of Harvard University, she holds an honorary doctorate from Fisk University, is on the faculty at Vanderbilt University, and credits Detroit’s Ziggy Johnson School of the Theater with being the most influential educational institution in her life. She is widely recognized as being one of the most significant voices in 21st-century African-American fiction.