The day I decided to learn how to swim was uneventful. I was at home nursing my then-14-month-old daughter when I came across a video on social media of a mom blogger I follow. In the video, her 2 ...

she didn't see a lot of girls in the pool who looked like her. "I didn’t feel like there was a lot of representation of Black women in swimming," she explained. Jayson agrees, which is why meets ...

WASHINGTON — More than 1,000 kids took to the pool for the first night of this year’s Black History Month Invitational Swim Meet, an annual event celebrating young African American swimmers.

As Roanoke plans major upgrades to Washington Park, tensions linger over the city's history of urban planning in majority ...