A horn blares, the stall gate opens, and out comes a raging 2,000-pound bull, bucking its hind legs wildly to knock a rodeo rider off its back. Red dirt fills the air as the crowd cheers, and a ...

I stood there frozen, both boots in the dirt, when I saw Kourtnee Solomon, a Black woman, riding her shiny Black horse inside the Veterans Memorial Coliseum arena in Portland. She had reins to steer ...

This story has been updated. Call it the Beyoncé effect: One of America's biggest music superstars unleashed a stampede of excitement for Black rodeos across the country with her 2024 album "Cowboy ...

"Handoff, Okmulgee, Oklahoma," from Ivan McClellan's new book "Eight Seconds: Black Rodeo Culture" Ivan McClellan's new photobook, “Eight Seconds,” documents the Black riders, ropers and rodeo queens ...

FORT SMITH, Ark — Fort Smith native Ja'Dayia Kursh became the state's first Black rodeo queen in 2017 when she won that year's Miss Rodeo Coal Hill of Arkansas, but even then she wasn't satisfied with ...

OKMULGEE — Sitting on his small sheep, a 6-year-old boy from Kansas City fired up the crowd after a good run in the Mutton Bustin' event. Joshua Johnson Jr. had the full cowboy outfit on. His dad, ...

Texas proudly boasts the nation’s largest rodeo, the renowned Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo, a stage where the nation’s premier athletes in the field, including skilled bull riders and calf wranglers ...

Charles Sudduth is sitting inside the Black-owned restaurant AKÂDI PDX in Portland when the general manager, Robyn Harris, tells Sudduth that she has to hurry up and buy tickets for 8 Seconds Rodeo.

There are rodeos all around the country, and some of them in Oklahoma, Texas, and Colorado celebrate the Black cowboy tradition. However, it is uncommon to see a Black Rodeo in the Pacific Northwest, ...

The smell of leather, dirt, and livestock mingling together hung in the air inside the auditorium at Hale Arena in the Kansas City West Bottoms, where the metro's first Black rodeo in several years, ...