The 2024 Rodeo Week kicked off in Redding with a steak feed and dance last Saturday, followed by the usual staged bank robbery that its beloved bandits, the Lone Stranger and Sidekick, successfully ...

Sarah Bird was a newcomer to Texas when she discovered the rodeo. It was the late 1970s, and Bird, who came from Albuquerque to Austin to study journalism at the University of Texas, would drive her ...

During the 1970s, Austin author and photographer Sarah Bird documented Black cowboy culture in Texas with images that now appear in her book "Juneteenth Rodeo." Bird on this image: "Whoever won the ...

Bird submitted her photos of Black rodeos to publications everywhere, but all were rejected. Now, 50 years and 11 novels later, there has been a revived interest in the world of Black rodeos (perhaps ...

DALLAS — Though its recognition as a federal holiday only began in 2021, Juneteenth celebrations have taken place for more than a century in Texas. The holiday celebrates the emancipation of enslaved ...