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Idris Elba stars in new western that rinses the whitewash out – Sydney Morning Herald

This cowboy romp finally brings black men and women to the foreground.

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Historians estimate that as many as one in four cowboys were black. (The word cowboy originated as a racist term for a black ranch worker. A white worker was a cowhand.) Samuel notes there were decades of the Old West after slavery ended in 1865. The iconic…

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