A shimmering dream on the Nile has inspired creativity from the Harlem Renaissance to Kara Walker to Beyoncé. But how much can you play with the past?

And they will remind me that country music is supposed to be white, though they won’t state this explicitly. What they will say instead: Black artists have hip hop and R&B, and while their white ...

And they will remind me that country music is supposed to be white, though they won’t state this explicitly. What they will say instead: Black artists have hip-hop and R&B, and while their white ...