Vote Imani Wilmot for BLACK GIRLS ROCK M.A.D Girls Award


A few months ago we featured Imani Wilmot,the Jamaican Daughter of Surfing. Vote for Imani in the BLACKGIRLSROCK M.A.D. (Making A Difference) Girl, honoring women changing their communities. Winner will be awarded at the BLACK GIRLS ROCK Annual Award show featured on BET. 

 Let's support this fellow BLACK SURFER CHICK! 

VOTE FOR IMANI

Read our previous feature on Imani to find out how is shaping her community in Jamaica by founding a camp to teach girls how to swim and surf.

Female Boarder On Cover of LIFE, 1965

LIFE has recently been going through their archives and  highlighting events of cultural importance from past decades. In the 1960's , LIFE reported on the "craze and menace of skateboards" to contemporary America. The fact that LIFE chose to spotlight skateboarding as one these cultural elements along with other key moments (i.e, civil rights, the Kennedy years) demonstrates it's impact on our society. Surprisingly,female surfer and skateboarder pioneer Pat McGee was featured on the cover of the May 14,1965 issue. The almost half-century old issue also features McGee skating barefoot at the 1965 National Skateboarding Championships. In 2010, Pat was the first female inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame. Seeing McGee featured on the cover of this issue is a  remarkable reminder of the importance of women to skateboarding. Though, female athletes in skateboarding and other sports still lack equal rights, it is evident that their roots are so deep in the sport it can never be replaced.


Source: Time, 1965


Source: Time,1965


Read more: http://life.time.com/culture/life-goes-skateboarding/#ixzz1nk2RYUMX

Happy Birthday Nick Gabaldon: First Man of African American Surfing


Source: Los Angeles Beat,2012
Nick Gabaldon was born on February 23,1927. He is the first documented African American surfer and known for regularly paddling 12 miles from Santa Monica to Malibu for the best waves.

Check out 12 Miles North, a documentary on Gabaldon's life at Nike Action's facebook page.

Nick (far right) surfing in Malibu.
Source: Los Angeles Beat,2012