During the earliest years of the Kentucky Derby, black jockeys rode most of the winning horses. But then Jim Crow arrived and white jockeys took their place. Now a new generation of African-America… ...

At 17 years old, Cheryl White became the first Black woman registered as a jockey in 1971. Her story is the focus of a middle grade novel, The Jockey and Her Horse, by brother Raymond White and ...

In 1971, Cheryl White, then 17, became the first Black female jockey — and, one of the earliest female jockeys of any color — in the United States, with a mount riding for her horse-owning ...

Cheryl White's story is told in “The Jockey and Her Horse,” a book for young readers by her brother and New York Times reporter Sarah Maslin Nir.

(WNDU) - We have been observing Black History Month since 1976. Cheryl White, the first African American female jockey, was taking the horse racing world by storm in 1976.

“The Jockey and Her Horse” is a new children’s book by Sarah Maslin Nir and Raymond White Jr. that explores the story of Cheryl White, the first Black woman jockey.

In 1971, when she was only 17-years-old, Cheryl White made history as “the first licensed Black female jockey” in America. Just before she died of a heart attack in 2019, White told a reporter ...

Black jockeys once dominated the sport of horse racing. In this week's Ask Caray, WLKY's Caray Grace dives into the history ...

A book about an Ohio native, known as the first Black female jockey, is coming out in early September. “The Jockey and Her Horse,” tells the story of Cheryl White of Rome Township, near Cleveland, who ...

Cincinnati native DeShawn Parker has been a jockey for 35 years. Parker has over 6,000 wins and is the winningest African-American jockey in professional horse racing history.

The movie 'Nope' features a clip of a Black jockey on a galloping horse. Eadweard Muybridge, an English photographer, sought to capture horses and other animals in motion.

You have Isaac Murphy who was the best known jockey of all time," said Lamont Collins, founder and CEO of Roots 101.Collins talks about the history of Black jockeys in horse racing, but also how ...