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    Black Surfers have Memorial Paddle Out

    By PaulaGibson  |  Posted August 25, 2009  |  Santa Monica, California
     

    On Sunday, the Black Surfing Association, conducted a memorial paddle out in honor of Monte Valentin, a body surfer who was killed riding the waves at the wedge in Newport Beach.  The paddle out was held at the Inkwell a formerly segregated portion of Santa Monica Beach, California.

     

    ©  Photographs by Paula Lauren Gibson

     

    Video of ceremony on you tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvEe7DkmbW4

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