Sports, Arts and Culture

Cuba awards Nyad ‘Order of Merit in Sports’

From cubadebate.cu. Aug. 30 — Today, Cuba awarded the “Order of Merit in Sports” to U.S. swimmer Diana Nyad, who…

September 6, 2014

Racism, sports and Donald Sterling

The owner of the National Basketball Association’s Los Angeles Clippers, Donald Sterling, was caught on audiotape April 9 making undeniably…

April 27, 2014

Michael Sam: Big step forward for LGBTQ athletes

By Scott Williams and Imani Henry “I’m a college graduate, African-American, and I’m gay.” With these words spoken on Feb.…

February 18, 2014

Chilean soccer team supports Palestine

The Club Deportivo Palestino, a first division football (soccer) team in Chile, has found a novel and dramatic way to…

January 19, 2014

Film review: “12 Years a Slave” illustrates horrors of U.S. slavery

Africans were enslaved by Britain and the United States in continental North America for nearly 250 years (1619-1865). The profits…

December 3, 2013

First Jackie Robinson; now Jason Collins

When the great African-American baseball player, Jackie Robinson, broke the color barrier of the then all-white, segregated Major Baseball League…

May 9, 2013

Sexism, class society and the Oscars

The following article is based on a talk given by Monica Moorehead, a WW managing editor and WWP Secretariat member,…

March 6, 2013

Palestinian filmmaker detained at LAX

Palestinian director Emad Burnat and his family were detained and threatened with deportation by U.S. immigration officials when they arrived…

February 27, 2013

Music that impacted anti-apartheid struggle

The documentary “Searching for Sugar Man,” released this July, attests to the power of music, the kind of music that…

October 8, 2012