Black History is NOW: Kamilah Norman, Airborne Gymnastics USA

Photos by Kerri Phox/The Atlanta Voice Tucked away in the corner of a shopping center in College Park, a stone’s throw from the busiest airport in the country, a dozen little girls jumped off a small trampoline. The athletes inside Airborne Gymnastics Club, a gymnastics studio that Kamilah Norman owned and has operated at this location since 2018, are three, four, and five years old. The trampoline looked like a sandwich board turned on its side and the girls were having fun jumping on and off of it.  Kamilah Norman, a native of Lansing. Michigan opened the gym, first as a mobile program in the spring of 2016 before finding a brick-and-mortar location big enough to house a gymnastics studio. She wanted to teach the sport, but also make it known that gymnastics can be for any and everyone that wants to learn. She saw a need and filled it. “I saw a need for more activities for the youth in this community,” Norman told The Atlanta Voice one Wednesday afternoon in January. “I love the sport of gymnastics and I am passionate about helping enrich lives through this amazing sport.& The need: Just 10% of scholarship gymnasts are identified...