From its 1890s start to its lakefront facility, the Sheboygan YMCA has grown through decades of moves, fundraising and expansions.

As many true Plainfield, New Jersey natives know, the Queen City, much like Plainfield YMCA, has a long and steadily progressive history rooted in inclusion and community. The three-story Neoclassical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of kids learned to swim at Terre Haute’s YMCA through more than a century. Teens — and their elders who still felt ...

The seeds of Black History Month were sown more than 100 years ago in the South Side YMCA at 3763 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago. Carter G. Woodson, a University of Chicago alum, was staying in a room at the ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- We begin our celebration of Black History Month at its birthplace in the Bronzeville neighborhood. Nearly a century ago, the origins of Black History Month began at the Wabash Avenue ...

One of the hottest third places in Charlotte isn't a trendy coffee shop or exclusive social club. It's the YMCA. The Dowd YMCA, specifically. Why it matters: The typical YMCA might conjure up images ...

"If walls could talk" might be a writer's cliche, but in the case of the Common House social club on Mitchell Avenue, it's also in a way possible. One of the nearly century-old doors in the four-story ...

On Monday, Feb. 20 at 7:30, Bob Furman will speak on Brooklyn history at the Prospect Park YMCA, which is located on Ninth Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenue in Park Slope. The talk will feature ...