(CBS News) - Cowboys of Color Rodeo founder and professional rodeo trailblazer Cleo Hearn has died at 86 years old. According to a statement from the family and the Cowboys of Color Rodeos, Hearn died ...

Cleo Hearn, who joined the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association in 1959 and set off on a landmark career in the sport, died Sunday at age 86. Hearn co-founded the American Black Cowboy Association ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo is mourning the death of Cleo Hearn, the trailblazing cowboy who founded the Cowboys of Color Rodeo and championed diversity in Western culture.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cleo Hearn, a trailblazing American cowboy who was the first Black student to earn a college scholarship for rodeo, has died at 86 ...

Each year, thousands of attendees pack the Fair Park Coliseum for the Texas Black Invitational Rodeo. The event, which is the biggest fundraising effort for the African American Museum in Dallas, ...

Cleo Hearn, who died Nov. 9 at 86, was a Texas rodeo legend. A Black cowboy who learned to ride during the Jim Crow era, he founded Cowboys of Color Rodeo, bucking stereotypes and encouraging ...

Cleo Hearn, best known as a trailblazer in professional rodeo died Sunday, Nov. 9. His legacy includes paving the way for cowboys of different cultures and creating the Cowboys of Color Rodeo.

The 36th annual Texas Black Invitational Rodeo is Saturday, July 26, at Fair Park Coliseum in Dallas. This year marks the 36th Annual Texas Black Invitational Rodeo. The event was started by Cleo ...

Anytime Cleo Hearn met a diverse rodeo athlete, he stressed the importance of being the best person possible and dressing like you belong. Hearn, the first Black cowboy to attend college on a rodeo ...

For the first time in decades, Cleo Hearn will not be at the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo, but the Cowboys of Color event he founded will ride on in his honor, celebrating diversity and the cowboy ...