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Making Waves

On a Wednesday morning in October in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, with the sun still low on its ascent, GiGi Lucas looked up from her surfboard to see a Black man walking along the sand. As she popped up onto the board, he came to a halt and began staring at her in awe, “as if he were thinking, Wow, I’ve never seen that before,” Lucas says.

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