Thanks to the Black Kids Swim Summer Swim Scholarship and support from their family, community and coaches, Reuben and Aaron Williams are on their way to swim for Division I collegiate swim teams....
In November 2020, Black Kids Swim celebrates our 5 year anniversary. As a gift to the BKS family, we created a new inspirational video. Watch now! We founded BKS 5 years ago to change the narrative about Black people and swimming, and to increase Black participation...
BKS' commitment to changing the competitive swim space has led us to create The Gorée Project. This special first-of-its-kind leadership initiative is BKS' response to exclusionary practices. It's our method of creating a monumental, trans-continental, unifying project designed to bring the African diaspora into focus...
Seventeen days after George Floyd was killed by police officers the world is still protesting. They are protesting against governments that allow security forces to harm and kill innocent Black men, women, and children. We support their efforts. The recent lackluster statement by USA Swimming regarding...
Meet Aaron Tinsley-Bradford: A Six-Year-Old Competitive Swimmer Making His Mark On The Sport By: Brianna Rhodes Aaron Tinsley-Bradford is a six-year-old Black competitive swimmer who has a bright future ahead of him. A City of Detroit Championship High Point winner and a Junior Olympic qualifier, the young...
By: Brianna Rhodes Whether it’s swimming competitively or participating in a triathlon, Tabono Clinic master coach, Marcus Fitts (@coach_fitts) has always been committed to staying healthy and active. As a high school and college student, Fitts played a number of sports, including track and field and football,...
Swim Dad extraordinaire and professional fitness expert Joseph S. Koroma Jr. is all about health and fitness. Whether it’s training a professional athlete or helping a new mom get her mojo back, the owner of fitness company, MaxFit LLC, loves helping people get strong and in shape....
We receive emails every day asking the same question: How can my kid join the Black Kids Swim team? Currently, there is no BKS swim team. However, there is an opportunity to train with BKS coaches, fitness experts, and nutritionists during the annual TABONO Competitive...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Four hundred years ago, the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown, Virginia in the United States. To celebrate the Year of Return, Black Kids Swim traveled to Dakar Senegal to witness the annual Dakar-Goree swim. We went, we thought, to capture an event; to meet some...
The recent events involving high school swimmer Breckynn Willis and official Jill Blackstone should serve as an alarm clock to the world of competitive swimming; it is time to prepare for the inevitable diversification of the sport. As the majority white world of competitive swimming...
Every summer more Black kids choose to join a summer swim team. Their participation in competitive swimming is changing the way the Black community relates to the water, and in the process, changing the sport of swimming. Black Kids Swim is SO PROUD of all of...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Meet the recipients of Black Kids Swim's 2019 Summer Swim Scholarship! This past summer of 2019, Black Kids Swim awarded its Summer Swim Team Scholarships to eight amazing swimmers. Their essays clearly communicate a passion for the sport of competitive swimming and will inspire other Black...
