For Black Communities, Learning To Swim Can Be Anything but Simple
By A Mystery Man Writer
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FINA has lifted the Olympic ban on Soul Cap, a swimming cap that better supports natural hair. But organizations like Black People Will Swim say more must be done to combat centuries of racial discrimination that kept Black people out of pools.
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Black People WIll Swim, Swim
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Press, NYC/Long Island
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Teaching My Black Son to Swim - The New York Times
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Teaching My Black Son to Swim - The New York Times
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Black People Will Swim is teaching people of color how to take on the water - ABC7 New York
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Nobody else looks like me': How it feels to be a young Black swimmer - The Washington Post
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