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Apr 2, 2021 · Concrete Cowboy: Directed by Ricky Staub. With Idris Elba, Caleb McLaughlin, Lorraine Toussaint, Jharrel Jerome. Sent to live with his estranged father for the summer, a rebellious teen finds kinship in a tight-knit Philadelphia community of Black cowboys.
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- Drama, Western
- Ricky Staub
- 2021-04-02
- The Origins of The Black Riders in Philadelphia
- The Real Urban Black Cowboys of Fletcher Street
- The Real Faces of Concrete Cowboy
- The Battle Against Gentrification and Urban Redevelopment
- Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club Still Faces Existential Threat
When Harp and other Fletcher Street riders in the film gather around a fire, they swap stories of the century-long history of the Black riders in Philadelphia, many of which are based in fact. There are various origin stories of Philadelphia’s Black cowboys, but the community is believed to date back to the early 20th century when Black Southerners...
Black-owned stables have existed on Fletcher Street for more than a century, and the area continues to be a cornerstone for the Black urban cowboy community in Philadelphia. “It’s the root—everything grew out from Fletcher Street,” Ellis Ferrell, the 82-year-old founder of the Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club(FSURC) tells TIME. Since the age of 16...
The history of the stables exists largely in the oral storytelling of Black riders who continue to support them today. And these stories, in turn, informed Neri when he was doing research for Ghetto Cowboy in Philadelphia. “Everything that happens in that book happened in another way in real life,” says Neri, who is an executive producer for Concre...
Black horsemen in Philadelphia have been repurposing abandoned warehouses, empty lots and rowhouse shells to stable their horses for decades. But as the town began to gentrify in the 1980s, the city began seizing the property riders had used for years for urban redevelopment. After leading several different stables around the city, Ferrell has been...
With the help of a benefactor, Ferrell was able to acquire three lots for the riding club on Fletcher Street, moving into newly constructed stables in 2019 after the filming of Concrete Cowboy, local news organization Billy Penn reported. But another urban redevelopment plan threatens Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club once again. The empty lot acro...
- 2 min
- Paulina Cachero
Concrete Cowboys is a 1979 American Western television film starring Jerry Reed and Tom Selleck, directed by Burt Kennedy. It was broadcast on CBS on October 17, 1979. The film is also known as Highway Action (in Finland), Nashville detective (in Italy) and Ramblin' Man , the latter under which it was released on video by a few companies ...
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Rent The Concrete Cowboys on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. Two Montana cowboys (Jerry Reed, Tom Selleck) head for Nashville and help a woman (Morgan Fairchild) find her sister.
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- Burt Kennedy
- Adventure
- Jerry Reed
Apr 1, 2021 · Concrete Cowboy. Odie Henderson April 01, 2021. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. If you know your history, the concept of a Black cowboy will not seem foreign. They’re part of a rich American story that spans centuries and seldom goes explored in cinema or in reality.
Concrete Cowboy is a 2020 American drama film directed by Ricky Staub from a screenplay by Staub and Dan Walser. The movie is based on the novel Ghetto Cowboy by Greg Neri, which was inspired by the real urban African-American horseriding culture of Philadelphia, and in particular, the Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club.
The film follows 15-year-old Cole, who's forced to live with his estranged father Harper in North Philadelphia, where, despite the surrounding poverty and violence, he discovers the redemptive ...
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