“I knew I had to tell a story of the past,” says Don Flemons, the Grammy-winning co-founder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Whitewashed from cowboy movies and lore, ...

Dom Flemons' latest album, Black Cowboys, is a collection of seldom-heard stories about the roles African-Americans played in settling the West after America's Civil War. The album's inspiration came ...

The Unsung American Cowboy with Dom Flemons is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, ...

In 1939, actor Herb Jeffries made history by starring in “The Bronze Buckaroo,” the first-ever Western to feature a Black singing cowboy as its protagonist. With Jeffries in the lead as Bob Blake — a ...