The Compton Cowboys: “Streets raised us. Horses saved us.”

When Keiara Wade rides her horse, Penny, she thinks of her younger brother, who was murdered when he was 23. “My brother thought that being a man meant being in a gang,” she said. Wade, who grew up in Compton, south of downtown Los Angeles, found solace at Richland Farms, a working horse ranch improbably nestled in the heart of the city. The ranch takes in horses that have been abandoned or abused. “You feel just the way I feel,” Wade remembered thinking about the quarter horse she rides. “You…

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