Black Cowboys

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  • Zaron Burnett’s dad didn’t want slavery to be his son’s only image of Black people in American history. So every night, he filled Zaron’s dreams with these incredible stories of Black cowboys. Despite what Hollywood taught us, one-in-four cowboys were Black. Their stories tell a bigger, braver, more honest history of America.
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Episodes
  • Eugene Bullard: Freedom in the Skies

    Eugene Bullard: Freedom in the Skies
    Oct 31 2024

    Eugene Bullard would not let America diminish him. So he left to find a place that would let him live free — and found freedom in the skies.

    On the Very Special Episodes podcast, we tell one incredible story each week. Stranger-than-fiction tales about normal people in extraordinary situations. Stories that make you say, “this should be a movie!” Follow us down a different rabbit hole every Wednesday.

    VERY SPECIAL CREDITS
    Hosted by Zaron Burnett, Dana Schwartz, and Jason English
    Special Thanks to Zaron's Pops
    Written by Zaron Burnett
    Produced by Josh Fisher
    Story Editors are Marisa Brown and Ryan Murdock
    Editing and Sound Design by Chris Childs and Josh Fisher
    Additional Editing by Emily Marinoff
    Mixing and Mastering by Baheed Frazier
    Voice Actors are Jonathan Washington and Chris Childs
    Original Music by Elise McCoy
    Research and Fact Checking by Zaron Burnett and Austin Thompson
    Show Logo by Lucy Quintanilla
    Executive Producer is Jason English

    Thanks for listening! If you're enjoying Very Special Episodes, please leave us a rating and review on your favorite podcast platform. You can reach us at veryspecialepisodes@gmail.com.

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Chapter 9: Cinematic Black Cowboys

    Chapter 9: Cinematic Black Cowboys
    May 14 2021

    Zaron grew up watching Westerns with Pop, and together they explore the history of Black cowboys on the big screen.

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    48 mins
  • Chapter 8: Panhandle Slim

    Chapter 8: Panhandle Slim
    May 6 2021

    When a young white college kid named Patrick meets up with a singing Black cowboy named Panhandle Slim, a whole world is revealed through Slim's intimate "story songs."

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Empowering

Thank you for this. I'm a Cowboy, a Black Man, Father, and Long Haul Trucker. My Great Grandfather owned a horse ranch in Montana, and he raised my Grandfather on it until it was taken from them. I was raised by my Mother in the Cowboy Way, and sometimes I let my people make me feel less Black because of my way, but this History reinforces my upbringing, and gives me real confidence in who I am. Thank you for telling our story.

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LOVING THIS PODCAST!

i love the storytelling and i really love his Dad's contributions! i have been interested in learning more about Black Cowboys and this podcast is a great start - i just want to hear/read more about them.
my only "complaint" is how the narrator/podcaster's viewpoints kinda shade some of the story or even the cowboy's own account. i understand we can't help it sometimes, but history tells itself. and we can't put our modern perspective on it without taking away from the story.
still- all in all, i could tell from all these episodes, there was real interest and love for Black Cowboys and Black History. that is awesome and much needed!

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