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Kevin Cody

Localism at the Manhattan Beach pier triggers racial reckoning for surfers

On President’s Day morning, a middle-aged, white surfer hassled two 24-year-old Black surfers in the line-up at the Manhattan Beach Pier. He told them to go surf in El Porto. Then, more pointedly, he told them to go surf Bruce’s Beach, a Blacks only beach in the 1920s and more recently, the site of Black Lives Matter protests

Pagan wins South Bay Boardriders,/Spyder inaugural virtual surf contest

In previous years, the SBBC contest series has been held throughout the winter on Saturdays in El Porto. But this winter, because of the pandemic, rather than surf together in heats, in front of judges, competitors are surfing individually, in front of video cameras. 

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