By Sam Alipour
Special to Page 2

Thursday, March 8, 2007

Black people can't swim. It's that myth -- and, all too often, a reality -- that Jim Ellis has tackled for more than 35 years. Ellis' story is at the center of "Pride," a film from Lions Gate and first-time director Sunu Gonera that chronicles Ellis' first year with the Philadelphia department of recreation, where he founded an African-American swim team in Nicetown, one of Philly's roughest neighborhoods. It was 1972 when the schoolteacher and former Cheney State swimmer first changed the l ...

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