Cheryl White is an undersung American icon. She was the United States’ first Black, female jockey, standing up to racial segregation and gender discrimination on the back of a horse, even making her mark on tracks up and down the California coast and in the Bay Area. 

In this episode of “Bay Current,” KCBS Radio’s Mallory Somera sat down with Cheryl’s brother, Raymond White, Jr., and New York Times reporter Sarah Maslin Nir, co-authors of a new book inspired by Cheryl’s story: “The Jockey and her Horse”.