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  Spain Just Won the World Cup With a Teenager Whose African Homelands It Colonized and Erased Spain beat Argentina on Sunday to win the World Cup, with the teenager Lamine Yamal as its star. His parents come from Spanish Guinea and Spanish Morocco, two colonies Spain left out of his history. Kahlil Greene Jul 21 Spain beat Argentina 1-0 in the World Cup final on Sunday, winning the tournament for the second time. The match went to extra time, and Ferran Torres scored the only goal in the 106th minute. Much of the attention went to Lamine Yamal, the 18-year-old Barcelona forward who ran Spain’s attack and became the first teenager to win both a European Championship and a World Cup. Reporters described the night as a handover from Lionel Messi, the 38-year-old Argentine, to the teenager who is now the face of the sport. Lamine Yamal celebrates after Spain beat Argentina 1-0 to win the 2026 World Cup, East Rutherford, New Jersey, July 19, 2026. Yamal grew up in Rocafonda, a working-...

A South Carolina Jury Decided That Shooting a Fleeing 14-Year-Old in the Back Wasn't Murder Two weeks ago, a South Carolina jury acquitted the man who chased and shot 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack-Belton over water he didn't steal, the latest in a long history of courts failing Black children. Kahlil Greene Jun 15 On June 1, 2026, a South Carolina jury found Rick Chow not guilty of murder. Chow, a convenience store owner, had chased a 14-year-old named Cyrus Carmack-Belton more than the length of a football field down a Columbia side street and shot him in the back as he ran away. Chow claimed that Belton had stolen four bottles of water that surveillance footage later showed Carmack-Belton took from a cooler and put back. Carmack-Belton had a pistol on him, but it fell from his pocket during the chase, and the first officer to arrive at the scene testified that Chow admitted he never saw Carmack-Belton point it at anyone. Despite this, the jury concluded that no crime had been com...