New York City Federation of Black Cowboys

[1][2][3] It is located in The Hole, a low-lying neighborhood on the border of Brooklyn and Queens in New York City.

[4] The Federation of Black Cowboys was officially incorporated in 1994 and leased the Cedar Lane Stables in Queens from the Parks Department.

[9] On Juneteenth in 2022, the FBC collaborated with jazz composer Allan Harris to present a musical, Cross That River, in the Richard Rodgers Amphitheater in Marcus Garvey Park, Manhattan.

[10] The musical tells the story of "Blu, who runs away from slavery to become a cowboy out west," and was presented by NYC Parks, City College Center for the Arts, Jazzmobile, and Love Productions.

[10] That year, the FBC was featured at the Battery Park Juneteenth celebration, providing "a brief history of Juneteenth" alongside bluesmen Michael Hill, Jerry Dugger, Junior Mack and Bill McClellan, after which children could attend pony rides.