Free Swim Lessons Should be Offered in School as Reparations to Black Families

During slavery and Jim Crow, black people were barred from learning how to swim as a means to handicap them and have them remain reliant on their owners and limit their freedom. After slavery and segregation ended, black people were terrorized by white pool-owners for taking up spaces in supposedly public pools. There are images […]

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