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.
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...
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...
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...
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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