Black children drown at more than twice the rate of white children, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. Experts told USA TODAY that systemic barriers in swimming pool access ...

We’re going to show you that Black kids know how to swim ... bathroom designer by day who is known as Coach T at the pool. “Swimming is life.” In the past, Black Americans were barred ...

The nation’s first Black-owned pool club ... “That made a cycle of kids not knowing how to swim.” Around a long-abandoned underground swimming pool at Philadelphia’s Fairmount Water ...

Swimming is a life skill, and the Police Athletic League in Wilmington wants to ensure city residents can learn how for free.

she didn't see a lot of girls in the pool who looked like her. "I didn’t feel like there was a lot of representation of Black women in swimming," she explained. Jayson agrees, which is why meets ...