On the heels of Beyonce’s hit album Cowboy Carter (2024), and films such as Lil Nas X’s hit time-travel Western, Old Town Road (2019), and Idris Elba’s Concrete Cowboy (2021), Pulitzer Prize-winning Photojournalist Ron Tarver, MFA will discuss the enduring heritage of Black cowboys on Thursday, Feb. 13 from 11:00 AM-12:00 PM at Delaware County Community College’s Marple Campus (901 S. Media Line Road, Media).
Tarver is the Author of The Long Ride Home: Black Cowboys in America (George F Thompson Publishing, 2024), a 30-year retrospective featuring ’90s film images of Black cowboys and cowgirls of all ages; the thriving culture of Black-owned ranches and rodeo operations; Philadelphia’s Black urban cowboys; and more. The book highlights the trailblazers who are bringing wider recognition to Black cowboys for their vital role in American history and contemporary culture. A Staff Photojournalist at the Philadelphia Inquirer for 32 years, Tarver won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 and was nominated for three others while at the newspaper. Now a Swarthmore College professor, his work is included in the collections of the National Museum of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, N.Y. The event is free and open to the public, and also available via Livestream. Find more information and register here.
The lecture is the first of two Black History Month lectures at DCCC. The second lecture will be Intersectionality: Understanding How a Person’s Identities Coincide with Each Other on Tuesday, Feb. 18 from 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, also at the Marple Campus. Durell M. Callier, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Delaware, will explore the topic of intersectionality, specifically the intersection of blackness and other identities.
Callier’s research documents, analyzes, and interrogates the lived experience of Black youth and their communities. He is the author of two books as well as numerous scholarly articles. The event is free and open to the public, and also available via Livestream. For more information and register here.
The events are part of DCCC’s annual signature Dialogues for Diversity speaker series, which is supported by the College’s Center for Equity and Social Justice.
Learn more at Delaware County Community College. For 57 years, Delaware County Community College has served as the center of educational opportunity for residents of Delaware and Chester Counties. Students find affordable, open admission to higher education and can earn Associate in Arts (A.A.), Associate in Fine Arts (A.F.A.), Associate in Science (A.S.), or Associate in Applied Science (A.A.S.) degrees. The College’s comprehensive programs offer high school dual enrollment; transfer options to four-year colleges and universities; prepare students for direct entry into the workforce; award professional certificates; and provide career advancement and lifelong learning opportunities. The College serves a diverse population of 16,000 credit and non-credit students each year.
