Opinion: The late country music star Charley Pride made his Blackness safe for white fans. His success suggests modern Black artists must do the same.

Growing up going to country concerts, Stephanie Jacques used to play a game counting the other Black people in attendance. For the most part she never felt unsafe: Jacques is a biracial woman who was raised by a Southern grandma in a White suburban California town, so she had a certain level of ease in White spaces, she said.

Is there some feud going on between Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter collaborators? Willie Jones is calling out Shaboozey for solely having white people in a video supporting for his breakthrough hit, “A Bar Song (Tipsy).