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🚨 The Final Lap is Here! 🚨

#BlackBabiesDoSwim is making waves one last time! 🌊✨ If you've been waiting to enroll your little one in swim lessons, this is your final chance! Don’t miss out on this opportunity to equip them with life-saving skills and confidence in the water. We have a great partnership this year with Swim1922 and the lovely sisters of SGRho to provide dry safety education! We're excited to execute our last lap with this partnership and serving our community. 

📍 Lessons held at Thelma Lovette YMCA – Hill District

Ages 6months-age 12.

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The Only Black Swim Program in Allegheny County

The #BlackBabiesDoSwimPGH initiative was created by Melanin Mommies-Pgh Inc to combat the stigma that black kids do not swim or don't know how to swim. 


In 2014, the CDC found that an 11-year-old black child is 10 times more likely to drown than a white child the same age. The notion that "black people can't swim” may sound like a stereotype, but it's a real disparity and it's rooted in a history of discriminatory access to swimming pools.  Throughout history blacks were denied access to pools with clean water, attacked at segregated pools and unable to join local swim teams/lessons or compete in Olympic swim events.


In 2017, USA Swimming, the governing body for the sport of swimming in the U.S., found that:

  • 64% of African American children do not know how to swim (compared to 40% of Caucasian children).
  • 79% of children in families that earn less than $50,000 a year do not know how to swim.
  • 76% of parents report that their children would be more interested in taking up swimming if they saw a talented swimmer that looked like them.

And according to their data, black children and their parents are three times more fearful of drowning than white children and their parents. 


Let's Work on changing these statistics! 


Lessons are held on Saturday and Sunday at the Thelma Lovette YMCA in the Hill District!


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THE TRUTH BEHIND THE MYTH THAT 'BLACK PEOPLE DON'T SWIM' AND HOW IT'S EVOLVED OVER TIME


The distant relationship between Black Americans and water is still as prevalent today as it was in the early 20th century. 

Swimming pools grew popular and began to expand across the United States in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s as Americans were looking for more ways to socialize according to National Geographic. However, when one thinks about the history of swimming, Black people typically don’t come to mind.

One of the longest-running stereotypes about people of color is they “don’t like to swim,” which isn’t true. The root of this commonality stems from slavery and racism, and as Blacks gained more freedom, other roadblocks were put in place that contributed to them not being quick to partake in water activities.

Read more at Blavity.com...


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