While some Beyoncé fans appreciate the tour visuals that highlight Blackness within country music and American history, ...

Cleo Hearn, founder of Cowboys of Color, helped create the Texas Black Invitational Rodeo to spotlight Black cowboy history.

After the Civil War, 20% to 25% of cowboys were Black, Indigenous and Mexican, depending on geography. "Along the Rio Grande, you had Tejanos and Hispanic people who were American," said Grauer.

Ron Jennings grew up in Los Angeles, but he’s all country, right down to his cowboy hat and folksy twang. The 42-year-old smiles when recounting the strange looks he got from fellow passengers ...

The 6-foot, 180-pound Hosley said he has enjoyed the cowboy life — tending to horses, competing, the peace of living on farms — and that his biggest worry had been about settling down his ...

This all-around Black Kansas City outdoorsman, educator, author, rancher and horseman is proud of his extensive cowboy hat collection and not because it’s a hobby. He’s a cowboy, like his ...

Larry Callies is the founder and curator of the Black Cowboy Museum in Rosenberg. Born in El Campo and raised in Beaumont, Callies believes the legacy and true history of the cowboy, particularly ...

Netflix’s “Concrete Cowboy” explores a more recent iteration of this culture, the Black “urban cowboys”of North Philadelphia. While I'll consistently shout from the rooftops that the ...

In 1970, Cleo was the first Black cowboy to win a calf-roping event at a major rodeo, the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo, held in Denver.As Keith Ryan Cartwright notes in his book Black ...

My Black Cowboy Bros Define What A Man Is. ... We all knew it in the neighborhood, but no one was prepared for it. There had been warnings in the past, but the family of my mother, ...

The Black Cowboy Museum is at 1104 3rd Street, Rosenberg, Tex. Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., most days, but it is best to call in advance (281) 787-3308. Mr.