“Mammas,” Ed Bruce famously sang, “don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys.”

It’s a song that makes a point of breaking down the challenging, lonely, alienating aspects of being a cowboy without ever acknowledging that not every baby grows up believing that becoming a cowboy is even an option.

High Horse: The Black Cowboy The Bottom Line Smart and entertaining, if lacking some depth. Airdate: Thursday, November 20 (Peacock)

Director: Jason Perez

“You can’t be,” Marian Wright Edelman is credited with saying, “what you don’t see.”

The erasure of the Black cowboy from the American mythos sounds frivolous until you give it a second’s thought and realize that if cowboys are integral to the American mythos and Black cowboys have been erased from that cultural tapestry, it’s tanta

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