New York City is making meaningful progress adding lifeguards and investing in facilities — but there’s more to do to make cooling waters accessible to all. By: Julie Sandorf, President of the Revson Foundation 

Following the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent movement to advance racial equity commitments to fund racial equity saw an increase. Unfortunately, few of these commitments were directly aimed at reparations, a comprehensive collection of policies to address the legacy of slavery in the U.S., and the centuries of documented, systemic race-based harm thereafter.