Drowning is a leading cause of accidental death for children, especially impacting minority communities due to historical and socioeconomic factors. Learning to swim is crucial for water safety and ...

Every child should learn to swim. However, there are barriers we must overcome to make that happen. They are alarming: Factors that determine children’s safety in water include economic status, ...

WPBF 25 News spoke with Maui Goodbear, who is working to help kids who are at risk, along with kids in the African-American community of South Florida, to learn how to swim, surf, along with ...

A brother and sister duo from Essex County is on a mission to decrease grim swimming statistics for Black and brown children by offering them free swimming lessons. Twins Tyna and Tyler Davis have ...

Drowning is the #1 cause of death for kids ages 1-4 and 64% of Black kids can’t swim. Paulana Lamonier is a New York City native who tweeted a few years ago that she wanted to teach 30 Black kids to ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says just 36% of African-American adults and less than half of Black children know how to swim, but a Valley nonprofit is working to ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - It is officially summertime and many of us are cooling off at the pool and the beach. Knowing how to swim is an important skill especially if you live on the Gulf Coast. Not ...

ATLANTA - All week, there have been events leading up to the Celebration Bowl at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. On Friday, young kids learned from Olympians and swam their "first 25" at the Morehouse College ...

“It’s lion day!” my 3.5-year-old daughter Indah shouts from her car seat in the middle row of an open-sided Land Cruiser in South Africa. We’re barreling along atop brick-red Kalahari Desert sand ...