A Portland photographer documented Black cowboys across the US for a new book

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A Portland photographer documented Black cowboys across the US for a new book

As a child growing up in Kansas City, Ivan McClellan would sing the national anthem at the American Royal rodeo with a youth choir. Those performances are some of his fondest memories, but they're also bittersweet.That's because just about everybody else around him was white.“It wasn’t a place that we felt like we belonged,” McClellan told “Morning Edition” host A Martínez.Learning about Black rodeos as an adult came as a revelation to him. McCl…