At an elite training center in Senegal, blackgirlssurf is raising a new generation of female surfers.
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 and the pro World Surf League.
It wasn't until Harper went home to California that she felt the stirrings of racial tension in the surfing community. One day, when she was around 18 or 19, she brought her shortboard to a beach in Santa Cruz,"the same place where I fell in love with the ocean." The water was flat , so she hiked back up to her car."Lo and behold, on the side of my car it said: 'go home n-----.
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