Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When a group of white and African American integrationists entered a St. Augustine, Fla. segregated hotel pool in 1964, the hotel ...

Hannah Palmer’s immersive art installation considers Atlanta’s ‘hidden water.’ For many of us, pools are synonymous with the pleasures of summer: Swimming lessons. A heart-stopping plunge in icy water ...

The poolside confrontations keep coming. This summer, a black boy was harassed by a white woman in South Carolina; a black woman was asked to provide identification by a white man in North Carolina; ...

Last weekend, a harrowing scene unfolded at a private community swimming pool in McKinney, Texas. Several white adults taunted a group of black teens, telling them to “go back to your Section 8 homes.

This photo from the 1940s shows the first public swimming pool in Cedar Rapids at Ellis Park. The pool, which opened in June 1941, initially barred people of color from entry, but that policy was ...

The history of how racially-separated public pools have contributed to present-day drowning issues among Black communities is being examined in a new exhibit at Fairmount Water Works. "Pool: A Social ...