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Tina Knowles, Kentucky Derby, High Horse: The Black Cowboy, theGrio.com
November 21, 2025
In “High Horse: The Black Cowboy,” Tina Knowles opens up about being pushed aside for a white couple on the…
May 3, 2024
Demeritte is the second Black trainer since 1951 to be saddling a Derby horse on Saturday. The other, Hank Allen,…
June 9, 2022
Black jockeys won 15 of 28 Kentucky Derbys. But then Jim Crow, segregation and more Latino hires changed the landscape.
May 31, 2022
A federal jury found John F. Johnson, who goes by “Grandmaster Jay,” guilty of multiple charges linked to protests two…
May 3, 2021
Her family's lawyer and his wife own Breonna, and the couple watched Thurby with Taylor's mother, Tamika Palmer, at his…
April 30, 2021
Long before Kendrick Carmouche started riding horses growing up in Louisiana, Black jockeys were synonymous with the sport.
September 6, 2020
Greg Harbut said there's "no way" he could have boycotted the race and not bring awareness to Black contributions to…
September 5, 2020
One group of protesters yelled, "Breonna Taylor" while the group of about 200 pro-police demonstrators yelled, "Back the Blue," in…
January 31, 2014
theGRIO'S 100 - Last year, Kevin Krigger became just the second black jockey since 1921 to compete in the Kentucky…
May 3, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Krigger could become the first black jockey to win the Derby in over a century. One hundred…
May 1, 2013
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kevin Krigger, the first black jockey in the Kentucky Derby since 2000, will be aboard Doug…