Category:Editorial
Harlem to Kansas City: A Summer of Can We Kick It?
The film’s first screening run brought its questions about access, culture, and American soccer into theaters, museums, and an HBCU—and carried the conversation beyond[...]
Soccer Doesn’t Need Another Commercial. It Needs an Allen Iverson.
Naomi Osaka’s U.S. Open tribute showed an example of what representation looks like—and why American soccer continues to miss it. By Akbar Majeed Can[...]
Lincoln Phillips Was the Blueprint
From Trinidad to Baltimore, Washington D.C. and Howard University, Coach Lincoln Phillips carried a culture of soccer into American institutions that were never fully[...]
Before Tuskegee, There Was Howard
As Tuskegee launches its first men’s and women’s soccer programs, the moment points back nearly 80 years—to Ted Chambers, Howard University and one of[...]
In the Room: What Baltimore Showed Us
CWKI Journal | In the Room Every screening of Can We Kick It? teaches us something different. Baltimore reminded us why the room matters.[...]
In the Room: Three Cities, One Unfinished Conversation
The screen went dark, but nobody was ready to leave. That became the real story of Can We Kick It? across four screenings in[...]