Adams had never seen skateboarding in person. His first exposure likely came from the children’s cartoon “Rocket Power” or the Tony Hawk Pro Skater video games, but as a Black kid from Whitehaven, he ...

imagine what it will feel like for a young Black kid to sit in their living room this winter watching the Olympics and see someone like Vanessa James, a Canadian skater, on the ice. It is huge for ...

Is a Black figure skater an oxymoron ... In his book “Why Black and Brown Kids Don’t Ice Skate — A discourse on the disparities of race in figure skating,” he explains what happened.