What Do You Know About Black Cowboys? - How a new musical is helping to correct a whitewashed history
How a new musical is helping to correct a whitewashed history---The phrase "crossing the river" has a special meaning for African Americans. Variations on this saying appear in many Negro spirituals, usually referring to the River Jordan which, according to the Old Testament, made way for the Israelites to cross over to the Promised Land. For slaves in the antebellum South, "crossing the river" was a metaphor for esc…