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; ...

In August 1879, around 6,000 spectators lined the banks of the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland, to see two teenagers called Elizabeth and Minnie swim half a mile. Now, 145 years later, there’s a ...