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NBC Affiliate WXII 12 Spotlights Can We Kick It? at NC A&T Homecoming
Greensboro television coverage highlights the award-winning documentary’s exploration of Black soccer culture, representation, and opportunity. GREENSBORO, NC — NBC affiliate WXII 12 News featured[...]
From the Yard to the Screen
How HBCUs helped shape the people, history, and purpose behind Can We Kick It? By Akbar Majeed | CWKI Journal The HBCU connection to[...]
CAN WE KICK IT? COMES TO GREENSBORO FOR SPECIAL GHOE WEEK SCREENING
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CAN WE KICK IT? COMES TO GREENSBORO FOR SPECIAL GHOE WEEK SCREENING ON OCTOBER 29 GREENSBORO, N.C. — October 2026 —[...]
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[...]
Can We Kick It? Heads to Kansas City
Outside the Soccer Room: The documentary’s next stop brings its conversation about culture, access and American soccer to the Kansas City FilmFest International. By[...]
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[...]
The Guardian Interviews Mel Brennan, Featured in Can We Kick It?
Related Press | July 17, 2026 Mel Brennan, one of the voices featured in Can We Kick It?, was recently interviewed by The Guardian[...]
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.[...]
The AFRO on Can We Kick It?
Following our Baltimore screening at Morgan State University, Can We Kick It? was featured by the AFRO, one of the nation’s oldest and most[...]
Before Can We Kick It?, There Was Concrete2Green
The Concrete2Green Archive: Before Can We Kick It?, There Was the Work CWKI Press Room | Archive Before Can We Kick It? became a[...]
The Guardian on Can We Kick It?
Today, The Guardian published a feature on Can We Kick It? and the larger questions the film raises about US soccer history, pay-to-play and[...]
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[...]
The World Came. Now What Do We Build?
The World Cup gave America a moment. The question is what remains after the cameras, campaigns and content move on. For more than a[...]
As the World Cup Enters Its Final Stretch, Can We Kick It? Asks What America Will Do With the Moment
As the 2026 FIFA World Cup moves toward its final matches, the spectacle has delivered what many expected: packed stadiums, global attention, national pride,[...]