[MUSIC PLAYING]
[TYPING]
KEENAN: Compton Cowboys-- it's a community.
We've been doing this for about 30 years.
We're trying to push positivity through these animals.
We want people to understand that there's a lot more to what
people think of Compton.
[LAUGHTER]
KEIARA: Big girl.
SPEAKER 1: I like my horse.
KEIARA: Who's your horse?
SPEAKER 1: Pretty.
KEIARA: Like her hair?
SPEAKER 1: [INAUDIBLE]
[LAUGHTER]
KEIARA: When I was a kid, every day after school,
I would go ride my horse.
[HORSE NEIGHING]
KEIARA: Once I got on the horse, nothing mattered.
Hearing the wind go past your ears, I just always felt free.
My mom rode horses professionally,
so she's the one who introduced me to barrel racing.
[CHEERING]
RANDY: Keiara was a competitor that we
had to always worry about, because she was really good.
SPEAKER 2: Yeah, Keiara!
KEIARA: And so I started to chase my goal,
to be the first Black woman to make it to the National Finals
Rodeo.
As I got older, I started to experience a lot more chaos.
My brother thought that being a man meant being in a gang.
So he was constantly battling within himself.
You know, you hear God works in mysterious ways.
Yeah, we hear that.
But when you actually experience it--
So this is where he fell.
He was shot here, and this is where he dropped.
He was 23.
[GALLOPING]
KEENAN: As a Compton Cowboy, what
gratifies me is giving these animals a home.
That's what we do.
[NEIGHING]
ANTHONY: When we first get the horses, some of them,
they out there starving.
But we feed them, take them in.
Welcome to your new home.
Do you love it?
[HORSE SNORTS]
ANTHONY: You going to be good today?
Huh?
[CLICKING]
RANDY: The first time Keiara came to the Compton Cowboys,
I could tell she had been through some stuff.
I didn't know how she could go from being
such a vibrant teenager to such a reserved adult.
KEIARA: Saving a horse, you have to understand,
they experience adversity.
Whoa.
You feel just the way that I feel.
You hurt just the way that I hurt.
You experience pain just how I experience pain.
It's OK.
When you are able to let them know, hey, you're good here.
It does something to them within,
and they're able to be free.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
KEIARA: When you get on a horse's back, you can feel it.
And it's-- oh, my gosh, it's beautiful.
KEENAN: You've been through a lot of stuff in your life.
A lot of that stuff got buried, but you kept on going-- like,
all right, what's next?
ANTHONY: She lost her brother.
Now, she's my sister.
That's my sister.
KEIARA: With all the things that we experience,
we're able to come back and say, you know what?
This right here, never failed us.
KEENAN: You can feel it.
You can see the looks.
Hey!
Can I touch your horse?
Compton is negative.
Nah, ain't no negative over here.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[GALLOPING]
ANTHONY: This is my home.
I can't never leave this.
RANDY: I love my people, man.
Family, community, my homies.
[LAUGHTER]
KEIARA: You're not in it alone.
And when you know that you have a community,
you can chase after your dream.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[CHEERING]
SPEAKER 2: Yeah, Keiara!
[CHEERING]
KEIARA: Now, the time and the world
that we live in, something has to change.
We're fighting for not just our kids, but for our community.
[MUSIC PLAYING]