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  • Hurley x Black Girls Surf Launch Their Swim Collection
    In Fashion, Hurley
  • GROMS, an NFT collection focused on promoting diversity through surfing, travel and the blockchain has arrived!
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This Organization Is Training Black Girls to Become Pro Surfers, 1 Wave at a Time

Rhonda Harper has been in Senegal since January. It was meant to be a short trip for Harper, the founder of Black Girls Surf, to do some filming with Khadjou…

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August 6, 2020
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Black Girls Surf Organizes Protest From Their Boards

The protests that have swept the country and the world these last few weeks have largely happened in the streets. But last Friday, a group of demonstrators in Santa Monica…

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June 12, 2020
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Meet Senegal’s First Female Professional Surfer, Who’s Inspiring Other Women To Ride The Waves

  Coming from the Lebou community, Khadjou Sambe grew up in Dakar, and despite having direct access to the Atlantic and the country’s surf spots, she has never seen a…

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August 31, 2020
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Black girls and supporters surf around the world to honor George Floyd

The “Solidarity in Surfing” events in more than 100 locations were organized by Black Girls Surf, a group founded in 2014 to teach the sport to girls of color aged…

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June 5, 2020
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How Women in Surfing are CHANGING THE WORLD! | Khadjou Sambe, Transformed Season 3, Ep 1

Khadjou Sambe was the first woman to surf in her hometown of Dakar, Senegal. In doing so, she emerged from a patriarchal system to become an icon for black women…

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February 27, 2020
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Rhonda Harper – Fierce Surf Coach Training the Next Generation of Surfers

• • •  After many years of hard work and consistency, Rhonda Harper’s community, Black Girls Surf, is getting the recognition it deserves. But this is just the beginning. From…

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March 5, 2020
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Surfing for “Something Positive”: Black Girls Surf and the Rising Tide of Equal Representation

Rhonda Harper was still new to the surfing scene in 1987 when, leaving the beach one evening in California’s historic Santa Cruz, she returned to her Nissan 300ZX to find…

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July 16, 2020
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Black Girls Surf: Meet the African women defying stereotypes to ride waves

Although women have the same legal rights as men in Senegal, the West African nation is still a deeply patriarchal society, where the burden of childcare and household duties falls…

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February 12, 2020
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    Black Girls Surf Camp 2022

    / June 23, 2022

    Black Girls Surf 2022 U.S. Tour will return to Watsonville, CA this week. BGS has been invited to several U.S. cities this summer. We are honored to share the stoke at home this year. Our surf camps are specialty fitness training…

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    Meet Senegal’s First Female Professional Surfer, Who’s Inspiring Other Women To Ride The Waves

    / August 31, 2020

      Coming from the Lebou community, Khadjou Sambe grew up in Dakar, and despite having direct access to the Atlantic and the country’s surf spots, she has never seen a single black woman surfing. Today, as Senegal’s first female professional…

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    Hurley Announces Long-Term Partnership with Black Girls Surf

    / August 18, 2020

    Hurley is proud to announce its new multi-year global partnership with Black Girls Surf, a Performance Training Program and organization that supports girls & women of color whose dreams and career goals are to compete in professional surfing. With locations in…

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    Khadjou Sambe on Becoming Senegal’s First Professional Female Surfer

    / August 11, 2020

    By the age of 13, Khadjou Sambe had fallen in love with surfing. But surfing is a male-dominated sport in her home country of Senegal, and it’s rare to find women riding the waves. It’s even rarer to see women of…

  • News,  Press

    This Organization Is Training Black Girls to Become Pro Surfers, 1 Wave at a Time

    / August 6, 2020

    Rhonda Harper has been in Senegal since January. It was meant to be a short trip for Harper, the founder of Black Girls Surf, to do some filming with Khadjou Sambe, a Senegalese surfer whom she’s training for the Olympics…

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    Senegal’s first female pro surfer draws others in her wake

    / July 23, 2020

    DAKAR – Growing up in the coastal capital of Dakar, Khadjou Sambe never saw a Black woman surfing the Atlantic swells. As Senegal’s first female professional surfer, Sambe is now inspiring the next generation to defy cultural norms and take…

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