At America’s longest-running Black rodeo, ‘real cowgirls and cowboys’ carry on a rich history
The longest-run Black rodeo in the nation, the Roy LeBlanc Okmulgee Invitational Rodeo takes place every year in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. This year, hundreds of spectators and competitors from across the country celebrated the rodeo’s 69th anniversary. The crowd inside the rodeo arena gets loud and the red dirt kicks up in clouds as teams