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 ...

“One of the city pools actually closed in order not to have to have little black children swim with little white children,” Colyer recalled. “There’s always been this issue of swimming and teaching ...

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

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 ...