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Horse Riders, a City Street and a History Now Captured on Film The coming-of-age drama “Concrete Cowboy” is set amid the stables of Philadelphia’s Fletcher Street, a hub for Black equestrians for decades. Ivannah-Mercedes, left, and Erin Brown are among the local Philadelphia riders who worked on the film.  Credit...Aaron Ricketts for The New York Times On Fletcher Street one summer morning in 2019, Ricky Staub was asked to walk the plank. For decades, Fletcher Street — a slice of Nor...

Who plays Concrete Cowboy’s Paris? The real-life cowboy   Netflix’s Concrete Cowboy tells the unheard story of African-American cowboys and their urban horse-riding culture in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With raving reviews, the audience want to know the first-time actor behind Paris, a cowboy bound to his wheelchair. When we think of cowboys, we think of white, all-American men in the Old West. Director Ricky Staub has used this opportunity to expose the life of African-American cowbo...