Alice Randall

Alice Randall is a New York Times best-selling novelist, award-winning songwriter, educator, food activist, and memoirist. 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. Widely recognized as one of the most significant voices in 21st century African-American fiction, she is the only Black woman in history to write both a number one Country song Trisha Yearwood's (XXX’s and OOO’s) and an ACM video of the year Reba's (Is There Life Out There?). My Black Country, braids Randall's personal journey into a vivid telling of Black people's four hundred year history making Country music in America. The companion album My Black Country the Songs of Alice Randall features superstars of modern Black Country including Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer.   

Event: Black Country - April 2, 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM