The Texas Black Invitational Rodeo at Fair Park showcases professional Black cowboys and cowgirls with live competitions, ...

The group trains in Livermore at Basso’s Arena, tucked within the Tri-Valley’s rolling hills, where the agrarian lifestyle ...

The inaugural Kansas City Invitational Black Rodeo on July 26 at Hale Arena will revive a local tradition dating back more than 50 years. Put on by Black Rodeo USA, the sold-out Kansas City ...

Children sometimes have to see something to believe they can do it too. That’s one of the reasons the Texas Black Invitational Rodeo started 36 years ago. The rodeo, which starts July 26 at Fair Park ...

Not all cowboys participate in rodeo, of course — but Black Americans make up a significant percentage of cowboys who don’t, too. Grauer estimates that about 20-25% of the cowboys who were on ...

A cowboy is whipped off a bucking Bull on July, 31, 2021 at the 32nd Texas Black Invitational Rodeo. Around 300 African American cowboys and cowgirls will saddle up and compete for cash prizes at ...

For the past 35 years, Cowboys of Color have been competing in the annual Texas Black Invitational Rodeo hosted by the African American Museum of Dallas. “As my dad always said, let me educate ...

The history of Black cowboys began during slavery and historians estimate 1-in-4 cowboys were Black. But when rodeo’s popularity soared in the late 19th Century, Black cowboys were excluded.

Cowboys and rodeo. Another reason why Black men and women have been late to enter the world of equestrian sports is because for centuries African Americans were not allowed to own horses.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH: For more than a century the cowboy has been portrayed only as a white man. Annabel Grossman meets some of the Black horsewomen challenging that perception – and reclaiming ...

Ivan McClellan's new photobook, “Eight Seconds,” documents the Black riders, ropers and rodeo queens encountered in dusty arenas around the United States. McClellan's love for the sport and subculture ...

Cowboys were Black and, for several years now, Venerable has been working at making sure everyone knows this American history. Growing up with the full farm life experience, Venerable, a 29-year ...