Henry Beecher Hicks, III, has served as president and CEO of the National Museum of African American Music for three years.
The cultural entity, for which there is no physical home, is hoping to serve as an anchor tenant of the long-proposed Fifth + Broadway, a mixed-use redevelopment of the site home to the former Nashville Convention Center.
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