Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘Change will be generational’: Black Swimming Foundation co-founder Ed Accura (Supplied) When Sadie Clayton attended her first ...

At 42, Tameka Bostick decided she wanted to learn how to swim. Bostick said she tried to sign her teenager up for lessons, too, but her daughter said she wanted her mother to learn to swim first. "'Ma ...

Data shows Black children drown at significantly higher rates than their white peers, a disparity tied to access, history, and opportunity. As temperatures rise and pools fill up across the country, a ...

In 2019, one tweet sparked the beginnings of Paulana Lamonier's small business. When she tweeted that she wanted to teach 30 Black people how to swim in Long Island, New York, the response was ...

When Torrence Thomas heard news that six Black teenagers drowned in Louisiana's Red River as they struggled to save a friend who had slipped into deeper waters, he knew something needed to be done.

At a friend's sixth-grade birthday party, I dove off the high board of the community pool and accidentally belly flopped into the water. When I was 15, I jumped off a boat in Lake Tahoe and got caught ...

Paulana Lamonier has made a home around the pool. Now she is doing the same for others. Lamonier started an organization called Black People Will Swim, with an aim at breaking down stereotypes. It ...

The second Pontchartrain Beach opened in 1939 and enjoyed several decades of prosperity. Although the amusement park section was under private management, the seawall, public beach, walkways and ...

After integration, many cities in the South decided to just shut pools down rather than let Black people in, including Tallahassee. During the summers of 1964-1967, the city commission closed public ...

When the raised pool at Liberia Park opened for Black Beaumonters in 1927, it quickly established itself as a summertime go-to for children and families. Attendance at the new Black "swimming pool has ...