In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...

At that time, Black horsemen dominated the sport. "Jimmy Wakefield won. He was the last one to win the Triple Crown. You have ...

Of the 15 jockeys who thundered across the finish line in the first Kentucky Derby in 1875, 13 of them were Black. In the 19th century, Black jockeys dominated the horse racing industry ...

Aristides won the very first Kentucky Derby, but history also remembers the colt’s jockey: Oliver Lewis, a Black jockey from ...

According to her cafe's website, Beard and her daughter, Theresa, played an instrumental role in bringing the recognition of Black jockeys to the Kentucky Derby Museum. Beard and her children ...

Inc." It's an annual event to celebrate the history of Black jockeys in the Kentucky Derby. She even drained her retirement funds to keep this celebration free for the whole community. To honor ...

The Kentucky Derby Museum’s traveling exhibit, Black Heritage in Racing will be on display at The Center for African American ...

OUR QUESTION THIS WEEK IS HAS A BLACK JOCKEY EVER WON THE KENTUCKY DERBY? THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION IS YES. IT WAS OLIVER LEWIS IN 1875. AT THAT TIME, THE SPORT WAS DOMINATED BY BLACK HORSEMEN.

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