The 36th annual Texas Black Invitational Rodeo bring crowds to Fair Park for a night of bull riding, barrel racing and Black ...

The Black Cowboys Parade returns to Sacramento’s Oak Park, highlighting the history of Black pioneers. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — ...

Cowboys didn’t start as the gun-slinging heroes we see in movies. The first American cowboys were enslaved Black men, forced to work with cattle and horses on Southern plantations.

Your Guide to KC: Star culture and identity writer J.M. Banks is acting as a tour guide of sorts to some well-known and hidden gems, with a focus on Kansas City’s communities of color. Send your ...

One acquisition editor told him there was “no such thing as Black cowboys,” he remembers. That was around 2004. “Well,” Tarver said, “I have about 20,000 slides that say there are.” ...

The boots moved West after the Civil War. They rode through cattle drives on many Black and brown feet (up to 60 percent of all early cowboys are believed to be of African or Latinx descent). An ...

He said being a third-generation cowboy has led him to be a driving force in the rodeo industry. “I go to rodeos all over the nation, and you know, the first thing they tell me is, ‘We didn’t even ...

After the Civil War, many freed Black men in the West worked as cowboys — herding and taking care of livestock. “If we start with the class analysis lens, it would be important to think of ...

There is no doubt that for my cowboy bros, men are currently going through a crisis. During the Presidential campaign, Vice President J.D Vance voiced some of the men’s issues.

The men on his mother’s side were cowboys, too, so he grew up ranching in a life rich in cowboy culture. Hollywood got it wrong, depicting an all-white, horse-and-cow-wrangling Old West.