I came across the Facebook Page on The Philadelphia Urban Riding Academy located in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood of North Philly. It is steeped in history of the urban black cowboys living in the neighborhoods of the City of Philadelphia for more then a century. The movie Concrete Cowboy, starring Idris Elba, is based around this story of the urban black cowboy’s in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Below read the interview with Erin Brown, the women who is the “Concrete Cowgirl”, and wears “all of the hats” currently at The Philadelphia Urban Riding Academy.

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