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The U.S. Department of Justice today has given up the latest attempt to try to force the team to drop the name.
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Tag: Washington Redskins
Did anyone outside of the Upper Midwest notice the big demonstration yesterday against the Washington Redskins’ name? Yes. Read more →
A Minneapolis ad agency has rolled out a commercial to build support for banning use of the word ‘Redskins’ from the regulated over-the-air broadcasts. Read more →
NPR executives ordered staff to stop using the name except when referring to the controversy over it with the Washington Redskins. It’s safe to say that it’s unlike the word would’ve come up in any other context on a network like NPR, but the concession is yet another indication that its continued use is occurring on borrowed time.
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The FCC says it will consider a petition to ban the mention of the name on the nation’s airwaves. It has the authority to do so — the First Amendment does not extend equally to broadcasters because it’s regulated by the government. Read more →
Last night, Comedy Channel’s Daily Show finally aired its segment on the Washington Redskins, almost a week after some of the participants themselves objected to how they characterized the debate over a racist nickname.
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The Rochester Post-Bulletin says it will not be joining a movement by some newspapers to stop using the word “Redskins” when writing stories about Washington’s NFL team. Read more →
The University of Minnesota reportedly is joining an attempt to prevent the Vikings from using the word Redskins in promotional advertising for its Nov. 2 game at TCF Bank Stadium. Read more →
A Seattle newspaper is banning the use of the name Washington Redskins in an acknowledgement that it’s a racist expression.
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Changing a racist name can take a long time, but it might be about to pay off for opponents of the Washington Redskins name. The U.S. Patent Office today canceled the trademark on the Redskins name. That only took about 20 years. Opponents figured out long ago that if the profit from the sale of Read more →
It’s a powerful ad that the National Congress of American Indians produced earlier this year to oppose the name of the Washington Redskins. Tonight, it will air in seven major markets (not Minneapolis) during the NBA Finals game between San Antonio and Miami. The Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, a small group located north of San Read more →
Some years ago, the Star Tribune sports department decided to stop using team nicknames that people might find offensive. Out were the ‘Indians’ and ‘Redskins,’ for example, and in was ‘the team from Cleveland’ or the ‘team from Washington.’
It lasted for about a season and then the policy quietly disappeared.
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The Redskins’ owner says the name represents “who we are.” That’s the problem. Read more →