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Be a Safe Swimmer - Swim in a supervised, marked area with a lifeguard present, and swim with others. Never swim alone. If you are swimming with children practice “reach supervision” by keeping your arm in arm’s length of the child while they are in or around the pool, lake or ocean, the Red Cross advises. (Photo: Mark Almond/Birmingham News/Landov)

Minority Children Urged to Take Swimming Lessons as Summer Approaches

Many Black parents never learned to swim. Cycle must end.
05/30/2012