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Redon - Vom Profil her winkt den Sprintern auf der vierten Etappe der 108. Tour de France ein Massensprint. Das war eigentlich auch am Vortag erwartet worden. Doch nach den vielen Stürzen war am Montag nur noch eine kleinere Gruppe um den Sieg gesprintet. Läuft es nach Plan, hofft Altstar André Greipel auf eine vordere Platzierung. Das Gelbe Trikot sollte der Niederländer Mathieu van der Poel problemlos verteidigen können. STRECKE:Die 150,4 Kilometer von Redon nach Fougères sind ganz nach dem Geschmack der Sprinter. Keine einzige Bergwertung steht auf dem Programm. 36 Kilometer vor dem...

Photographer Ivan McClellan grew up watching Western movies and Bonanza reruns, and going to rodeos with his family in Kansas City. But as a kid, he never saw earnest depictions of cowboys that looked like him. “I didn’t know a thing about Black cowboys,” says McClellan. Any depictions of Black cowboys he did see were as “a punchline”—Sinbad in The Cherokee Kid, or Cowboy Curtis on Pee Wee’s Playhouse. “What if a Black guy was...

Photographer Ivan McClellan grew up watching Western movies and Bonanza reruns, and going to rodeos with his family in Kansas City. But as a kid, he never saw earnest depictions of cowboys that looked like him. “I didn’t know a thing about Black cowboys,” says McClellan in a recent interview with the Mercury. Any depictions of Black cowboys he did see were as “a punchline”—Sinbad in The Cherokee Kid, or Cowboy Curtis on Pee Wee’s Playhouse. “What if a Black guy was a cowboy? It was like a joke.” That changed six years ago when McClellan, who now lives in Portland, went ...

7:08 A new exhibit at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West focuses on Black cowboys and rodeos: Eight Seconds: Black Cowboys In America. Wyoming Public Radio's Kamila Kudelska spoke with photographer Ivan McClellan about his work, and the first Black rodeo he went to in Oklahoma. Ivan McClellan: I got out of my car and saw 2,000 Black cowboys there and I was just enamored of the culture immediately. The way the people dressed. The way that people wore braids, people had long acrylic nails, there was hip hop music playing. Like, it just completely shattered my conceptions of like what a rodeo ...