Rodeo Archives - Andscape

Culture

Celebrating 40 years of Black cowboy culture at the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo

Traveling rodeo celebrates the unsung Black history of the American West

Photo essay by Julien James

Culture

11-year-old cowgirl Kortnee Solomon competes at the first televised Black rodeo

Photographer Ivan McClellan documents her journey

Story by Miss Rosen and Photographs by Ivan McClellan

Culture

When black cowboys paraded through Harlem with Muhammad Ali

A path-breaking all-black rodeo in New York helped introduce America to a little-known piece of Western history

By Keith Ryan Cartwright

Culture

Fred Whitfield and the Black Cowboys of Rodeo

The champion calf-roper is a legend and an outlier

By Paul Wachter