The powerful trailer for Jordan Peele’s latest project, High Horse: The Black Cowboy, is officially here — three years after his 2022 film, Nope.

“If there were no Black cowboys, then America wouldn’t exist,” writer Michael Harriot explains early in the trailer for the three-part series, produced by Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.

“The Black cowboy was intentionally removed from the story, so we can create the myth of the American white cowboy,” another person says in the trailer, which was released via YouTube on Thursday, November 6.

The trailer immediately sets the tone for the docuseries — a deep-dive into both the history and erasure of Black cowboys in American culture. The trailer opens with a scene featuring two men — each wearing cowboy hats, scarves around their mouths and long

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