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 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- In a 2017 report from the USA Swimming Foundation, 64 percent of Black children have little or no swimming ability compared to 40 percent of White children. One Saint Augustine ...

NEW YORK -- Every summer, children drown at local pools, beaches and rivers. That's why CBS2 is dedicating this week to water safety. We begin our weeklong series with the troubling history around ...

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 ...

The Metro Nashville Police Department is adding a brand new precinct in Antioch, and it’s set to open in less than a month. Detectives with the Metro Nashville Police Department say they are pursuing ...

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 ...

ABIDJAN – In Nigeria's teeming city of Lagos, children in the Makoko area swim and play in filthy water surrounded by garbage. In Ivory Coast's largest city, Abidjan, thousands of families must fetch ...

While police killings of black people sometimes attract front-page attention, black lives lost due to drowning are largely ignored. Today, nearly 60 years after the abolishment of Jim Crow laws that ...

In April, Judy Benjamin started her trek to walk across the country in San Diego, California. Now, she’s in Mobile. The Daphne Police Department, alongside officers from Fairhope, Spanish Fort, ...