Sports

Palestine Chronicle Staff
Responding to Mohamed Salah: Who Killed the ‘Palestinian Pelé’?
20 Aug 2025
Al-Obeid, 41, was killed on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, in an Israeli attack on civilians waiting for humanitarian aid in the southern Gaza Strip.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EDITORIAL: After the Olympics: Buying off Protest, Harry Edwards, 1969
16 Jul 2025
“Racists don’t give up easily, we learned, and the racists in sports are especially dedicated.”
Joseph Massad
Why Dutch Support for Israel's Football Hooligans Has Roots in Colonial Racism
20 Nov 2024
Holland's support for genocidal Israeli fans and condemnation of its own citizens as 'antisemitic' is the latest manifestation of its fanatical support for Israel and racist history.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva’s Book, “The End of College Football”
06 Nov 2024
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured authors are Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva.
Gus Griffin
The Sports World’s Selective Moral Indignation Part II
03 Jul 2024
The imbalanced and prejudiced criteria by which the International Olympic Committee chooses to take action against countries reveals the political and moral inconsistencies…
Gus Griffin
Another Sports Team Fleeces the People
03 Apr 2024
Through misleading deals, tax breaks, and false promises, capitalists and politicians plunder public resources for their own gain.
Anima Adjepong
Book Review: Race to be Myself
13 Dec 2023
Anima Adjepong reviews the book "Race to Be Myself" by Caster Semeya, a South African Track and Field star whose gender was questioned by national sporting institutions.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Lakers/Warriors; And Knicks/Heat
17 May 2023
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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum “Sports and Black Struggle”: Interview with Dewitt King
21 Sep 2022
In this feature, we interview organizers, journalists, scholars, and athletes working at the intersection of sports and Black struggle. We ask three general questions to all contributors and two…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum “Sports and Black Struggle”: Interview with Courtney M. Cox
13 Jul 2022
This week, we interview Courtney Cox. Dr. Courtney M. Cox is an assistant professor in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. Her research examines issues…