We must break this misconception. Swimming isn’t just a luxury or sport—it’s a life-saving skill. Research indicates that Black children and their parents are three times more fearful of ...

The previous year, he’d tried, and failed, to get Monroe to integrate its public swimming pool for even one day a week. Black children had drowned in local swimming holes and creeks, but ...

According to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), black children aged 10 to 14 are seven times more likely to drown in swimming pools compared to their white counterparts.

The Howard University Swim team sets another Division 1 record by winning their second swim meet in the last three years.

The first time I went there, there was so much excitement.” Smith, 87, recalled going to the nightclub located in the Sir John hotel in Miami’s historic Black neighborhood in the early 1960s to dance ...

The Black History Month Invitational Swim ... "I love to see a lot of the older children because a lot of our children may stop swimming because of the weather, their hair, or because it’s ...