“Swimming is life.” In the past, Black Americans were barred from many ... She said the work starts outside the pool with a ...

On June 18, 1964, a group of Black and white protesters fighting for integration went swimming ... swimmers in the pool when the owner of the motor lodge threw acid into the water.

But there’s a reason that Black communities in America, for example, don’t have as much pool-participation as white ones. For years, swimming was seen as a no-go zone for many Black people ...

But it’s the benefits to her self-esteem that writer Nyima Jobe values the most as a Black swimmer ... my absence from the pool was making me more lethargic and lazy. Swimming felt like a ...