Rodeo
Rodeo
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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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel That event, the Roy Leblanc Invitational Rodeo in Oklahoma, is one McClellan has come to dub "the Super Bowl of Black rodeos." It is the oldest of its kind in the country.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
SGT (Join to see) I think I've Seen this Guy Riding His Horse down Bannister Road in Kansas City.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
SGT (Join to see) - Where I Live Now used to be a Horse Paddock when i was Younger, When I Retired from the Navy Still had a Country Club with Horses Just South of Me Near Leawood, Park. Now If You want to See Horses You Need to go to Far SE Kansas City where it Meets Lee's Summit, MO.
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