New Black Rinks
The list of Black owned/managed rinks keeps expanding. Visit the Black Rinks page for the latest additions: New Skateland Arena in New York and Dekalb Hollywood Skating in Georgia.
An Online Resource Station for Avid, R&B Skaters
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An Online Resource Station for Avid, R&B Skaters |
The list of Black owned/managed rinks keeps expanding. Visit the Black Rinks page for the latest additions: New Skateland Arena in New York and Dekalb Hollywood Skating in Georgia.
You have the opportunity to share your skate story with StoryCorps, a non-profit organization which travels the country recording individuals telling their life experiences for preservation in a Library of Congress archive. Recorded stories are regularly heard on public radio stations and are also available via the internet.
For months now, StoryCorps, in conjunction with Our Family Skate Association, has been recording skater histories (on CD) which then become part of the National African American Roller Skating Archive based at Washington, D.C.’s Howard University.
StoryCorps mobile booths will be in the Denver, Colorado and Buffalo, New York areas this summer and interested skaters are greatly encouraged to reserve a time to have their unique skate experiences recorded so that many generations in the future can benefit from listening to them.
Tentative schedule dates include:
Denver – July 17 to Aug. 5
Buffalo – July 17 to Aug. 5
Grand Junction, CO - Aug. 9 to 23
For more information, contact Tasha Klusmann at tashaklusmann@yahoo.com.
