Every responsible bank supervisor in America is spending their week scrutinizing the institutions they oversee to ensure they don’t become part of the falling dominoes.
In 2007, Rissi Palmer became the first Black woman to have a country song reach a Billboard chart since Dona Mason in 1987. Palmer was acutely aware of the 20-year gap, which she came to understand more as an erasure of the contributions of Black women to country music than a simple absence of their presence.