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Meet the swim club and the Olympian trying to close the racial gap in swimming

Black Americans drown at a rate 50% higher than white Americans, according to the CDC. The Nile Swim Club is trying to undo that statistic, teaching hundreds of Black kids to swim and get in pools.

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