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How Skateboarding Can Help Fight Racism [nytimes.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) · 6/18/202:48 PM

By Jill Cowan, The New York Times, June 18, 2020 In early March, I talked with a pair of researchers at the University of Southern California who had recently published a study — funded by the Tony Hawk Foundation — showing how skateboarding helps build resilience among young skaters, and helps them form communities across backgrounds. “The stereotype is white stoner guys,” Dr. Zoë Corwin , one of the researchers, told me at the time. “The reality in 2020 is the skateboarding community is...

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