Introducing: Black Cowboys
Stuff You Should Know- 1,185 views
- 22 Feb 2021
Hey, SYSK fans! We think you might like this new iHeart original podcast, Black Cowboys. Check out the trailer to see for yourself!
About Black Cowboys: Zaron Burnett’s dad didn’t want slavery to be his son’s only image of Black people in American history. So every night, he filled Zaron’s dreams with these incredible stories of Black cowboys. Despite what Hollywood taught us, one-in-four cowboys were Black. Their stories tell a bigger, braver, more honest history of America.
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I'm Erin Burnett, host of Black Cowboys and New IUT Originals podcast. When I was a young kid trying to make sense of the world, my pop made a decision. He didn't want slavery to be my only image of black men in American history.
The stories that we had in my family, but never stories of being victims, but they were stories being successful, free people trying to live their lives against whatever odds they were.
They became cowboys to my pop told me stories, true stories of free black cowboys, stories about not love, the toughest cowboy of them all the lawmen. That's really the outlaw Cherokee bill and many others. And they were more than just great stories.
They gave his young son hope. I can't wait to share these stories with you, listen to black cowboys on the radio, out on Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast.