Black children aged 10-14 drown at nearly four times the rate of white children. The disparity is even more pronounced in swimming pools, where Black children in the 10-14 age group drown at 7.6 times the rate of white children, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | CDC (.gov)

Black children ages 5-9 drown at more than twice the rate of white children, and those aged 10-14 drown at nearly four times the rate, according to the CDC.

CEO Trish Miller created SwemKids, Atlanta’s largest black-owned swim school, after a near-tragic story.

On a college trip in 1996, a group of friends found out Miller could not swim, so they decided they were going to teach her. However, not really thinking, Miller jumped into the deep end of the pool after her lesson, ended

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