Compton Cowboys

California Love

LAist Studios

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4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

There’s a horse ranch in the heart of Compton that may hold the answers for salvation and redemption for the city’s black cowboys.

Read the original NYTimes article, "For the Compton Cowboys, Horseback Riding Is a Legacy, and Protection."

Read Walter Thompson-Hernández's book The Compton CowboysThe New Generation of Cowboys in America's Urban Heartland

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0:00.0	Support for LAST comes from Pasadena Playhouse presenting Eureka Day.
0:04.6	Jonathan Spector's Razor Sharp 2025 Tony Award winning satire.
0:09.1	Eureka Day is on stage at Pasadena Playhouse beginning September 10th.
0:13.2	Tickets are on sale now at Pasadena Playhouse.org.
0:17.0	Live stream, supported by South Coast Repertory, presenting million-dollar quartet.
0:21.6	Step back to 1956 when Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins
0:26.7	made music history with one of the greatest rock and roll jam sessions.
0:30.2	In this musical with over 20 hits, September 13th through October 19th.
0:34.6	Tickets at SCR.org.
0:37.3	Support for LAists comes from Pasadenaena Playhouse presenting Eureka Day,
0:41.7	Jonathan Spector's Razor Sharp 2025 Tony Award-winning satire.
0:46.3	When a mumps outbreak hits a progressive private school in Berkeley,
0:49.6	the well-meaning board of directors descends into full-blown chaos
0:52.7	trying to create a perfectly inclusive vaccination policy.
0:56.0	Spoiler, it does not go well. See it on stage at Pasadena Playhouse September 10th through October 5th.
1:02.0	Tickets are available now at Pasadenaplayhouse.org.
1:06.0	It's a Sunday afternoon. It's 1991.
1:12.6	And my mom and I are driving down Alameda Street.
1:14.6	It's a year before we moved to the west side.
1:16.6	And I said, Mijo, look, look outside.
1:19.6	Mira, Mira, mea.
1:20.6	Those cowboys, there are black cowboys.
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