Over the years budget pressures and waning enthusiasm led American universities to abandon swimming tests. Recently the focus has shifted to the uncomfortable racial disparities they reveal https://t.co/O6ujpMViBAPhoto: Getty Images https://t.co/pHUHReihIn ...

Swimming ability in America remains sharply divided along racial lines. These days such disparities make universities uneasy https://t.co/4ZxVkLnhCc ...

Over the years budget pressures and waning enthusiasm led American universities to abandon swimming tests. Recently the focus has shifted to the uncomfortable racial disparities they reveal https://t.co/FTeUBygATZ ...

Good morning. At age nine with my friends, we used to braid friendship bracelets. We would sit at my kitchen table after school and on the weekends with a beautiful bag of string of all colors and sit together and braid friendship bracelets.At the time, it was a simple hobby. It was something that brought us together. But this hobby became something bigger when we began to sell these friendship bracelets to raise money for cancer research.We got together as a team for our local Relay for Life chapter of the ...

[Applause] There's an African proverb that says, "If you know someone's story, you cannot harm them. " I feel that in my three decades as a filmmaker, a media educator, and a public television producer, director, and executive producer, I've tried to harness the empathy machine that is cinema to center our shared humanity. But in over a century of moving image media, it's done as much damage and destruction as it has good. This can be seen in a range of work from Hollywood's first feature film, 1915's The B ...