Posted on Apr 24, 2024
A photographer documented Black cowboys across the U.S. for a new book
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As a child growing up in Kansas City, Ivan McClellan would sing the national anthem at the American Royal rodeo with a youth choir. Those performances are some of his fondest memories, but they're also bittersweet.
That's because just about everybody else around him was white.
"It wasn't a place that we felt like we belonged," McClellan told Morning Edition host A Martínez.
As a child growing up in Kansas City, Ivan McClellan would sing the national anthem at the American Royal rodeo with a youth choir. Those performances are some of his fondest memories, but they're also bittersweet.
That's because just about everybody else around him was white.
"It wasn't a place that we felt like we belonged," McClellan told Morning Edition host A Martínez.
A photographer documented Black cowboys across the U.S. for a new book
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