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Imagining the Indian

Sports Business Journal – Documentary Will Tackle Native American Branding

by Jessie Atkin | Jun 28, 2020 | Press Coverage

Ongoing social justice protests are forcing companies to reexamine their branding, from Land O’Lakes to Aunt Jemima. Similar conversations have long been part of the discussion in sports, most notably with the NFL’s team in Washington.

Deadspin – As More Demand the D.C. Football Team Change Its Racist Name, Here’s True Story of Why The Bullets Became the Wizards

by Jessie Atkin | Jun 28, 2020 | Press Coverage

“Dan Snyder, his out in this is saying, you know, Abe Pollin made a personal, moral decision to change the name,” said Aviva Kempner, a Washingtonian documentary filmmaker whose work includes The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg and The Spy Behind Home Plate, about...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Gene Collier: Decorated documentarian Aviva Kempner takes on racist mascots

by Jessie Atkin | Jun 28, 2020 | Press Coverage

“The longer he doesn’t move, the longer he’ll seem intransigent, but eventually he’s gonna move,” the decorated documentary filmmaker Aviva Kempner was telling me this past week. “I think it’s his natural stubbornness. A lot of people are against change. But it’s the...

Filmmaker Magazine – Aviva Kempner and Ben West on Fighting the Dehumanization of Native American Mascoting in Imagining the Indian

by Jessie Atkin | Jun 25, 2020 | Press Coverage

In the past few days trademarks and brands like Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben’s and Eskimo Pie have been discontinued or altered in a long overdue reevaluation of racist stereotypes and iconography in American consumer culture. And the broader groundswell of change that...
Spike Lee Says NFL Must Pressure D.C. Team to Change Racist Name

Spike Lee Says NFL Must Pressure D.C. Team to Change Racist Name

by admin | Jun 22, 2020 | Breaking News

Director, Spike Lee, spoke on SiriusXM’s The Joe Madison Show on June 19th, saying NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell, should approach D.C. team owner, Snyder. Lee also asked if a football team used the racial slur of any other group for their name if that would be...
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