{"id":2465322,"date":"2026-06-18T13:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2465322"},"modified":"2026-06-18T13:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:07:08","slug":"black-rodeo-returns-for-juneteenth-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/black-rodeo-returns-for-juneteenth-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Rodeo returns for Juneteenth weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Southeastern Rodeo Association\u2019s annual Black Rodeo returns to St. Louis on Juneteenth weekend with a mission beyond entertainment: highlighting the overlooked legacy of Black cowboys and cowgirls. The event will be held Saturday, June 20, at Chaifetz Arena, with performances at 1 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SERA founder Walter Hull said the rodeo was created to bring families together while educating audiences about the history of Black cowboys and cowgirls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI was in entertainment all along and then the idea of a Black Rodeo came to me,\u201d Hull said. \u201cFamily entertainment was lacking at that time. \u2026 We want to educate people on the history of the Black cowboy and cowgirl that helped tame the Old West.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event is held during the Juneteenth season by design.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cJune 19th was a historical day for the African American cowboy, cowgirl \u2014 and, of course, the African American people in general as well,\u201d Hull told attendees at last year\u2019s rodeo. \u201c1865 is a year and June 19th is a day that we will always remember.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Historians estimate that as many as one in four cowboys in the American West were Black. Many were formerly enslaved people who found work in the cattle industry after the Civil War, helping drive herds north along trails that became central to the mythology of the American frontier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite their contributions, Black cowboys were largely absent from many popular depictions of the West in movies and television.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOn TV we never saw Black cowboys and cowgirls,\u201d Hull said. \u201cWe only saw the Lone Ranger, Rawhide and people like that \u2014 nobody that looked like us.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-2    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first SERA rodeo was held in 2013 in Montgomery, Alabama. Since then, the organization has staged events across the South, Midwest and East Coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Representation remains a central part of the mission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe rodeo is done out of a love for horses and western culture,\u201d Hull said. \u201cAnd if you have aspirations to be a cowboy, you\u2019ll see somebody in the ring that looks just like you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saturday\u2019s rodeo will feature events including barrel racing, bronc riding, tie-down roping and steer wrestling.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-3    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steer wrestling itself has roots in Black rodeo history. Bill Pickett, a Texas cowboy born in 1870, is credited with creating the event, which remains a staple of professional rodeos today. Pickett became one of the first Black stars of the rodeo circuit and was later inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hull said many of the competitors have spent their lives in the sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe people we have performing have been part of the rodeo all their life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Hull, the event\u2019s purpose extends beyond competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen you come out to the rodeo,\u201d he said, \u201cknow that you\u2019ll see somebody that looks like you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.stlamerican.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southeastern Rodeo Association\u2019s annual Black Rodeo returns to St. Louis on Juneteenth weekend with a mission beyond entertainment: highlighting the overlooked legacy of Black cowboys and cowgirls. The event will be held Saturday, June 20, at Chaifetz Arena, with performances at 1 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. SERA founder Walter Hull said the rodeo was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2465323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2465322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Black-Rodeo-returns-for-Juneteenth-weekend.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2465322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2465324,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465322\/revisions\/2465324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2465323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2465322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2465322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2465322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}