A marker tells the history of a segregated pool in Lawrence and community activism against segregation and in support of an integrated public swimming pool. The marker is outside the entrance of the ...

The swimming pool at the Helen G. Nassif YMCA in downtown Cedar Rapids was recently closed indefinitely after a contractor accidentally dropped an industrial light bulb on the pool deck during ...

The history of how racially-separated public pools have contributed to present-day drowning issues among Black communities is being examined in a new exhibit at Fairmount Water Works. "Pool: A Social ...

Swimming is universal to all races and cultures. However, in these times, we see very few representatives from the indigenous populations of Africa, the Americas or Oceania competing in aquatic sports ...

A few hundred red and white tiles—embedded on the underside of a concrete slab bridge in Broad Ripple Park—is what’s left of the old Broad Ripple Pool, a former crown jewel of the Midwest and site of ...

Civic leaders gather July 20, 1968, to open the Elizabeth Bender Swimming Pool at the Jane Boyd Community House at 10th Street and 14th Avenue SE in Cedar Rapids. Standing (left to right) are Cedar ...

Editor's Note: This story was originally published in 2019. The tradition of a summer afternoon at the pool dates back more than a century in Indianapolis. Still, the city's earliest pools might not ...

A little more than a century ago, the new swimming pool at Roosevelt Park was overrun by mermaids. Granted, these flappers didn't have fins, but they mesmerized the masses in an Aug. 10, 1924, edition ...