Thank you for this piece.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Blacks aged 5–19 years were 5.5 times more likely to drown in a swimming pool than their white peers, and at ages 11–12 years, blacks drowned in swimming pools at 10 times the rate of whites.”
Swimming While Black Is Still a Revolutionary Act
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Jun 30, 2021
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Thank you for this piece. This gave my flashbacks to the Octagon, a student center built in honor of a black student Gerald Penny who drowned in the swimming pool at Amherst College because no one wanted to save him.
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Black-Filipina. Lived in Peru for 5 years. LICSW, dancer, meditator. Writes about multiculturalism, cinema, race, social issues.
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