The "Blue Mindscape" exhibit draws people together around a pool of light to listen to contemporary voices discuss the importance of water to health and well-being. (Emma Lee/WHYY) Updated: 12:35 p.m.

Rhonda Harper remembers walking up to the community swimming pool two blocks from her house, hand in hand with her mom. It was the early ’70s, and she was just a little Black girl eager to cool off in ...

Maritza Correia McClendon wasn’t sure she heard it right. She contemplated hitting rewind and listening one more time just to make sure. She was at her cousin’s house in Atlanta, 12 years removed from ...

The distant relationship between Black Americans and water is still as prevalent today as it was in the early 20th century. Swimming pools grew popular and began to expand across the United States in ...

HEMPSTEAD, New York -- For Paulana Lamonier, taking a dip in the pool is an act of joy. She took swimming lessons growing up and developed a love for the sport. But it was as a college swimmer that ...

LONDON, July 15 (Reuters) - When Alice Dearing earned her ticket to Tokyo 2020 as the first Black female swimmer to represent Britain at an Olympics, she spoke of "decades and decades of historical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For over 50 years, residents of the mostly Black, largely rural Lower Richland community have relied on the Hopkins Pool for ...

Diversity in swimming has always been an issue. In the United States, the overwhelming majority of swimmers are white. According to a 2019 Swimming Membership Demographics report, only 0.8% of their ...

HEMPSTEAD, New York -- For Paulana Lamonier, taking a dip in the pool is an act of joy. She took swimming lessons growing up and developed a love for the sport. But it was as a college swimmer that ...