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For Black cowboys – from inner-city Philly to small-town Texas – horses and riding are a way of life

  • Written by Nick Lehr, Arts + Culture Editor
For Black cowboys – from inner-city Philly to small-town Texas – horses and riding are a way of life'The Basketball Game.'Ron Tarver

Photographer Ron Tarver grew up in Fort Gibson, a small town in Oklahoma where horses, cattle and Wrangler jeans were embedded into the rhythms of everyday life. His grandfather was a cowboy admired for his roping abilities, and many of his family members owned ranches in the area.

But he wanted, he told me,...

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