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Country music tells a story of home, heritage, and belonging - but not everyone has been allowed inside. Beneath its whitewashed image lies a Black history that continues to surface, from the cotton fields to Beyoncé.

Racial inequality in the United States is not accidental. It is designed. Redlining transformed racism into policy, embedding segregation into the financial and urban structure of American cities. Its consequences remain visible today.

Starting from his film My Father’s Shadow, set in Lagos in 1993, Akinola Davies Jr. reflects on how memory, both personal and collective, shapes the way he approaches cinema. Moving between the UK and Nigeria, his work draws from a diasporic perspective that resists linear, Western storytelling, embracing instead atmosphere, fragmentation, and cultural specificity. Blending political context with …