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Podcast: Black History Year
Episode: Bill Pickett: The Black Cowboy Who Changed Rodeo
Description: John Wayne, who? Media will make you believe that white men were the premier cowboys, but Black cowboys were the real rodeo legends. Bill Pickett was an innovator of the sport, and they made him hide his Blackness.
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