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Monument For Washington Football Team’s Racist Founder Removed from RFK Stadium

Monument For Washington Football Team’s Racist Founder Removed from RFK Stadium

by admin | Jun 19, 2020 | Breaking News

A monument to George Marshall, the original owner of the Redskins football team, was removed today from RFK stadium after “change the name” was spray painted on the statue. “This symbol of a person who didn’t believe all men and women were created equal...
AOC Calls Out Hypocritical Tweet from Washington Redskins

AOC Calls Out Hypocritical Tweet from Washington Redskins

by admin | Jun 17, 2020 | Breaking News

New York Congressional Representative, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called out the hypocrisy of the tweet from the Washington Redskins taking part in #blackouttuesday. The movement on social media was meant to draw attention to the historical inequities in the United...

UDC Law News- Great Review for Alums’ film Against “Mascoting” of Native Americans

by Jessie Atkin | Jun 11, 2020 | Press Coverage

Award-winning documentary film-maker Aviva Kempner, ’76 and her Ciesla Foundation appear to be “doing it again” – this time with the help of Associate Producer Yancey William Burns, ’08, with a new hard-hitting documentary...

ESPN – The Sporting Life with Jeremy Schaap

by Jessie Atkin | Jun 11, 2020 | Press Coverage

Aviva Kempner, Filmmaker, explains why Washington needs to change their mascot from “Redskins” and why teams like the Braves need to stop engaging in behaviors like the “Tomahawk Chop.”

Trailer Watch: “Imagining the Indian” Fights Against Native American Mascoting

by Jessie Atkin | Jun 10, 2020 | Press Coverage

“This country doesn’t really do anything voluntarily in terms of granting human rights. It comes through movements, and movements educate people,” says one of the characters featured in “Imagining the Indian.” A new trailer for the documentary details the movement to...
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