In New Orleans, Black Cowboy Tradition Collides With Prison Rodeo Spectacle

In New Orleans, Black Cowboy Tradition Collides With Prison Rodeo Spectacle

NEW ORLEANS — Outside, along Claiborne Avenue in the Algiers section of New Orleans, Sunday looked familiar. Black children slurped snowballs in the street, adults danced around them, and Black riders eased their horses through the crowds, past corner stores and shotgun houses, hooves clapping against the asphalt.  For Black riders like Robert Pollar, who learned to ride from his father, the Sunday scene is a ritual of care and presence that he …