The Louisiana Drowning: Why Many Blacks Can’t Swim
Last week’s tragedy in Louisiana highlighted a shocking statistic: 70 percent of black youth can’t swim. Constantino Diaz-Duran on why efforts to get minorities into the water often fail.
Shreveport Fire Department and Caddo Sheriff's deputies work the scene at Charles and Marie Hamel Memorial Park in Shreveport, La., Monday, Aug. 2, 2010 in search of teens believed to have drowned while swimming in the Red River. (Henrietta Wildsmith, The
