In a 2016 portrait by the photographer Brad Trent, an older black woman poses on a bale of hay, a white Stetson hat on her head and a pair of hand-tooled cowboy boots on her feet. The fringe on her leather jacket flows downward, as do her knee-length dreadlocks, which echo the texture of the … Continue reading THE NEW YORKER: BLACK COWBOYS, BUSTING ONE OF AMERICA’S DEFINING MYTHS