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Behind the Lens During A Banner NorCal Winter With Sachi Cunningham Local photog on this wild season, shooting around home at Mav's and Ocean Beach Photo: Krista Brenner Photography Local photog on this wild season, shooting around home at Mav's and Ocean Beach Link copied to clipboard Editor’s note: In honor of International Women’s Day, we’ll be rolling out a week’s worth of stories — one each day from March 8-14 — that celebrate and showcase contributions women have made to the sport, lifestyle and culture of surfing. (And yeah: we’ll continue to do so in the weeks and months...

GiGi Lucas and SurfearNEGRA are inspiring the next generation of diverse female surfers

One year ago, surfer Gigi Lucas stood for the first time in the soft, warm sands of NaNa Dune outside of Jacksonville and experienced a rare feeling: a sense of privilege as a dark-skinned Black woman. Lucas, an athletic beauty with an enviable crown of dreadlocks, is acutely aware that the surfing lifestyle she adopted as an African-American woman wouldn't have been possible only a few decades prior. "Overwhelming gratitude" swept over her on American Beach, which contains a history lost to the larger world and even to some in her own community. The 33-acre stretch of shoreline was purchase...