Herb Jeffries, a pioneer in African American-targeted Western movies and jazz singer known as the “Bronze Buckaroo,” has died. He was 100. Jeffries died of heart failure in West Hills, Calif. on ...

Herb Jeffries was the first singing star of all-black cowboy movies in the late 1930s, which garnered him the nickname the "Bronze Buckeroo." He... Singing Star Of All-Black Cowboy Movies, Herb ...

Herb Jeffries, who sang with Duke Ellington and starred in early black westerns as a singing cowboy known as “the Bronze Buckaroo”– a nickname that evoked his malleable racial identity – died on ...