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Historians estimate a quarter of settlers of the US west were Black, moving cattle on horseback, settling towns and keeping the peace
CONCRETE COWBOY (Netflix) In Northern Philadelphia, the sight of Black men and women on horseback, actual urban cowboys, is a common sight. They follow the more than a century old tradition of ending to and riding the animals within the city. Co-writer (with Dan Walser) and director Ricky Staub based his film on âGhetto Cowboy,â a novel by Greg Nero. Cowboys in Philadelphiaâs horse riding culture, the Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club, run into trouble with law enforcement and city officials, who favor Philadelphia continuing on the path of gentrification. Into this strange...
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 North Philadelphia’s Strawberry Mansion neighborhood — had been home to urban horse stables, and a ...
Me once karaoke is safe again. GODZILLA VS. KONG. On the rarest of occasions, one receives an unexpected gift; something one would not have chosen for oneself, or even considered as a potential source of joy. Such, for me, was the arrival of Godzilla vs. Kong. We all knew it was coming and most were ready to receive it with adulation (see the world-crushing box office numbers). But I was, as in most things, trepidatious. As much as I reveled in the pleasant surprises of Kong: Skull Island (2017) and despite my almost-primal reverence for monster movies, time has made me wary even of simple ...
