Free Game: A Parents' Guide to Navigating Black/Brown Children through Youth Sports and Beyond - Softcover

Green, Khalid Diallo Akhdaru

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1956019391 ISBN 13: 9781956019391

Publisher: DartFrog Books, 2023

Synopsis

Khalid Green’s Free Game is a manual for black and brown parents navigating through the complicated, political and intimidating terrain of amateur sports. Are you concerned with the state of youth sports? Are you feeling drained emotionally and financially from the amount of time and money you are spending on traveling, hiring trainers, and attendance at tournaments? Are you overwhelmed with the search for the right coach, school or program? Free Game provides you and your child the chance to see behind the industry curtain, as Green provides clarity to questions he’s faced during 25+ years in youth sports.

"Free Game brings to bear the wide range of challenges often confronted by Black and Brown parents and student-athletes. Khalid challenges our children to see themselves from a holistic perspective rather than the limited view of the shallow athlete. What's more, he encourages our youth to boldly learn from the lessons of their sport forebears whose shoulders on which they stand, such as myself along with Muhammad Ali, Curt Flood, Connie Hawkins, Pee Wee Kirkland, and many others that have made the sacrifice so that equity and justice for our people could be achieved. More importantly, Mr. Green bravely confronts the structural anti-black racism that he has encountered and witnessed within education as well as athletics. Khalid Green has dedicated his life as a coach, mentor, NBA scout, and college professor. The mental seeds that he plants in this publication are his testimonial. Free Game serves as the ultimate GPS tracking system that will help parents navigate the student-athlete journey."
—Dr. John Carlos

Khalid Green, Community Basketball Director for New Heights Youth Inc. in Brooklyn, New York, is a former scout for the New Jersey Nets. He is also a professor at Long Island University where he teaches several courses on evaluating talent in the NBA as well as philosophies of coaching.

About this title

About the Author

Khalid Green, Community Basketball Director for New Heights Youth Inc. in Brooklyn, New York, is a former scout for the New Jersey Nets. He is also a professor at Long Island University where he teaches several courses on evaluating talent in the NBA as well as philosophies of coaching.

Edition details

• Publisher: DartFrog Books
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1956019391
• ISBN 13: 9781956019391
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230