From the cover of a Grammy-winning Beyoncé album to a sci-fi thriller from Oscar-winning filmmaker Jordan Peele, Black cowboys have been in the forefront of popular culture over the past few years.
It’s a Memorial Day weekend tradition for thousands of people from all over the country, but this year things will look a lot different. Owners of the Boley Rodeo replaced the worn-out bleachers, ...
Thousands of people from all over the world will flock to Boley, Oklahoma, for the historic annual rodeo taking place in the town. Ahead of the nation's oldest African American community-based rodeo, ...
We are literally just weeks away from the Boley rodeo on Memorial Day weekend, and as the thousands of cowboys roll into town, the upgrades will be very noticeable. “I immediately saw that there ...
The story was the same in most all the Black towns: The Great Depression and the de-throning of “King Cotton” caused their numbers and their prosperity to plummet. But Boley’s rise and fall seems even ...