Host Jeremy C. Park interviews Kahari Nash, Founder, Chairman, President and CEO of KSN Gaming, Inc., who shares some of his personal background growing up in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, and how he became known as “The BooRay! King” as the face and creator of BooRay!, the 1st Black-Owned Casino Table Game. Nash was a 2024 Inductee into the Mound Bayou Hall of Fame. Nash then discusses what led him to becoming Creator and Executive Producer of a five part documentary series about his hometown, Mound Bayou, Mississippi, entitled, “Mound Bayou: The Most Remarkable Town in the South.”
The series takes its name from a famous statement by President Theodore Roosevelt after visiting Mound Bayou on a whistle stop campaign tour in 1908. Founded by formerly enslaved cousins Isiah T. Montgomery and Benjamin T. Green, Mound Bayou was created as an independent, economically self sustaining black town, and it remained so through the mid-1960s. Astounded by the successful economic model built on agribusiness (most sought after cotton in the world in the 1930s with 6 cotton gins), Roosevelt told the nation time and time again about the “remarkable” daily lives of the black led city.
During the interview, Nash shares how his family is directly connected to the city’s rich history and legacy, and how that led to the film’s creation. He talks about some of the famous figures with ties to Mound Bayou and some of the historic spots to visit and experience firsthand, such as Taborian Hospital and Peter’s Pottery.
Nash then shares that Memphis is the opening city for the 2026 Black History Month Screening Tour where the first episode of “Mound Bayou: The Most Remarkable Town in the South” will be premiered with a Q&A session following. The screening in Memphis will take place at the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel on Friday, February 6, 2026 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM CST. The screening in Atlanta will take place Friday, February 20th, 2026, at Clark Atlanta University (CAU) and then the screening in Chicago will follow on Friday, February 27th at the DuSable Black History Museum & Education Center.
To learn more about the project and important updates on the events, visit https://www.moundbayoumuseum.org, which is the website for the Mound Bayou Museum of African American History and Culture.
Then, you can also follow the following on Instagram:
@KahariNash
@The_Booray_King
@Booraygaming
@MoundBayouMuseum
@KendrickPerkins
@MChalmers6
