via ebony: John Legend told his 12 million Twitter followers on Monday that he isn’t the greatest swimmer. “I can’t really swim,” Legend tweeted. “Today I took my first swim lesson since I was like 5.” The EGOT winner isn’t the only member of his family to get a late start on swimming. Legend said his father […]

  This milestone comes after four earlier attempts ended in injuries and dehydration   (CNN) – Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad completed a 110-mile swim from Cuba to Florida, arriving in Key West more than 48 hours after leaving. Nyad made history Monday on her fifth attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida. At age 64, […]

TOLEDO, Ohio — As a child, Wanda Butts learned to stay away from the water. Her father had witnessed a drowning when he was young and passed down a fear of swimming. Like many blacks, she didn’t learn to swim, and she instilled those same anxieties in her son, never taking him to the pool […]