A Member of the First All-Black High School Rowing Team in the U.S. Wants to Make Waves

The national governing body for U.S. rowing says only 1.3% of its members are black or African-American. Arshay Cooper wants to change that.

Growing up in the 1990s on Chicago’s violent West Side, Arshay Cooper often had his walk home from school punctuated by the sound of gunfire. To him, “crew” was another word for “gang.

” One day in the fall of 1997, a rowing coach with the nonprofit Urban Options who was trying to launch a team at Mr. Cooper’s overwhelmingly African-American high school beckoned him toward a sleek boat and a rowing video display set up in the cafeteria. Mr. Cooper realized that “crew” could mean something else.

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