Nashville's Music Row Reflects National Concern For Social Justice, Racial Parity
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billboard.comBlack lives matter. As Americans rallied on June 19 from Boston to Oakland, Calif., the date symbolized a dramatic change of awareness.
Many white adults had not previously heard of Juneteenth, which marks the anniversary of the last slaves discovering they had been freed, yet scores of Caucasians participated in the demonstrations, awakened to racial inequality by a recent series of murders of Black citizens, primarily the May 25 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis while in police custody.
Count the predominantly white country music industry among the sensitized. Over 700 people tuned in for the first of two Zoom panels, "A Conversation on Being African-American in the Nashville Music Industry," as the business observed Blackout Tuesday
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