Due South visits 'My Black Country' with Alice Randall, Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer

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Due South visits 'My Black Country' with Alice Randall, Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer

By Leoneda Inge,

Stacia Brown

Published April 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM EDT

Rissi Palmer (left) and Rhiannon Giddens (right) holding Due South mugs during their in-studio interview about My Black Country and the history of Black artists in country music at 吉彩网网站 — Rissi Palmer (left) and Rhiannon Giddens (right) holding Due South mugs during their in-studio interview about *My Black Country* and the history of Black artists in country music at 吉彩网网站

Due South's Leoneda Inge talks with Alice Randall, author of .

And we welcome the future! Award-winning folk and country music artists Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer tell us how they鈥檝e made it this far in the biz.

Alice Randall, Rhiannon Giddens, and Rissi Palmer will be in Durham later this week for 鈥� a music festival curated BY Rhiannon Giddens. Biscuits and Banjos runs April 25-27 in downtown Durham.

Today鈥檚 conversation originally aired in April 2024.

Rissi Palmer (left) and Rhiannon Giddens (center) with Due South co-host Leoneda Inge

Guests

Alice Randall, Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities, professor of African-American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University and author of My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future

Rhiannon Giddens, singer, musician and historian

Rissi Palmer, singer-songwriter and host of Apple Music's Color Me Country

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Leoneda Inge

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of 吉彩网网站's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at 吉彩网网站 as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda鈥檚 work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.

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Stacia Brown

Stacia L. Brown is a writer and audio storyteller who has worked in public media since 2016, when she partnered with the Association of Independents in Radio and Baltimore's WEAA 88.9 to create The Rise of Charm City, a narrative podcast that centered community oral histories. She has worked for WAMU鈥檚 daily news radio program, 1A, as well as 吉彩网网站鈥檚 The State of Things. Stacia was a producer for 吉彩网网站's award-winning series, Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon and a co-creator of the station's first children's literacy podcast, The Story Stables. She served as a senior producer for two Ten Percent Happier podcasts, Childproof and More Than a Feeling. In early 2023, she was interim executive producer for WNYC鈥檚 The Takeaway.

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