UPPER MARLBORO, Md. — The Jackson Family Rodeo Crew is an Upper Marlboro, Maryland, family of seven epitomizing the rodeo lifestyle and legacy of Black cowboys in the United States.Parents Corey and Robyn Jackson have dedicated themselves to supporting their five kids, four of whom compete, in living that lifestyle to the fullest.
Corey Jackson told"Good Morning America" that from the time he was a young child in his hometown of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, he had always wanted to be a cowboy.
"On my dad's side, back to the Reconstruction Era, [in] my family, the men were sharecroppers. And so to be a sharecropper, you needed help, and the help came by way of an animal -- horse, mule -- and they became very skilled in training those horses for work purposes," she said."Not until my dad did that skill kind of change into a pleasure activity."
"It almost brings tears to my eyes because I don't think we ever, you know, we just never imagined. You don't know what your future holds," Robyn Jackson said."I don't know that I had ever planned to have little cowboys and cowgirls but that is what has happened. And I'm so thankful because all the decisions that my dad made early on, we had no idea how that was going to impact our lives today.
Nic was only 7 years old when he got on his first bull. At 13, he was named the 2020 Junior World Bull Riding Champion, making him the first ever in the Northeast to win. With goals of going pro, that was just the beginning for the now-14-year-old, who hopes to take home the title again at this year's Junior World Finals in December.
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