Active Black Country announce new partnership with the Black Swimming Association to support them in realising their ambitions across the Black Country. Both organisations to work together to encourage increased aquatic activity with people of African, Caribbean and Asian heritage. To find out more...
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The Black Swimming Association (BSA) is launching a ground-breaking research programme, which could dispel some of the myths surrounding ethnically diverse communities and water safety. According to Sport England, 95% of black adults and 80% of black children do not swim, while an estimated 532,000 children...
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Swimming has long been thought of as a “white” sport but right from the conception of the strokes, swimming has been an ethnically diverse sport. In 1844, the British Swimming Society invited the two men, Wenishkaweabee (Flying Gull) and Sahma (Tobacco), of the Ojibwe people from...
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Alice Dearing, a 22-year-old student at Loughborough University, is one of Great Britain's top female marathon swimmers and one of the BSA Co-founders. She's also currently the only black swimmer on Team GB and is only the second to represent them in the water....
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Challenging the Myth that ‘Blacks Can’t Swim’ – 5 Questions with Filmmaker and BSA Co-founder Ed Accura Ed Accura is a British rapper, songwriter, record/film producer and the founder of the Bear A Witness Homeless campaign What inspired you to learn to swim and share your story? I...
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