International Sports

Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Sportswashing: How Capitalism Kills the Game for Poor and Working Class People While Normalizing How Imperialism Oppresses and Kills Them
17 Jun 2026
A single working mother could once take her child to a Yankees game for $40, but today that money would not even cover the online service fees. Sporting events have been stolen from poor and working…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
The Delaney Hall Immigration Jail, U.S. Human Rights Abuses, and the World Cup
12 Jun 2026
Delaney Hall is an immigration jail located in Newark, New Jersey. It has been the focal point of protests ever since it reopened last year, with detainee escapes, a hunger strike, and further…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
The Black Alliance for Peace Calls for a Boycott of the World Cup
12 Jun 2026
The Black Alliance for Peace and other organizations have called for a boycott of the 2026 World Cup being held in the United States. Before any matches were played, the U.S. banned players, fans,…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: All the World’s a Ball, Eduardo Galeano, 1998
10 Jun 2026
“Professional soccer does everything to [destroy] that energy of happiness, but it survives in spite of all the spites.”
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley , Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
"Move the Games": Take the FIFA World Cup Out of the U.S. and Boycott the Host Country Itself
05 Jun 2026
Ajamu Baraka is a Black Agenda Report contributing editor and Director of the North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights. The North-South Project is among the organizations calling for…