The Texas Black Invitational Rodeo returns to Fair Park Coliseum Saturday night for its 37th edition, carrying forward nearly four decades of competition while honoring the man who helped make the event a North Texas tradition.
This year’s rodeo pays tribute to the late Cleo Hearn, a National Rodeo Hall of Famer, founder of Cowboys of Color Rodeo and longtime advocate for telling a more complete history of the American West.
For Hearn’s oldest son, Harlan Hearn, continuing the rodeo is the most direct way the family can preserve his father’s life’s work…