by Jessie Atkin | Jul 14, 2020 | Press Coverage
Our producer, Kevin Blackistone, discusses the latest news in the football team’s name change and learn how indigenous communities have been stereotyped on The Kojo Nnamdi Show.
by Jessie Atkin | Jul 13, 2020 | Press Coverage
Co-director and producer, Aviva Kempner, on the Washington NFL team’s announcement that they will officially be changing their name. “This corporate pressure to change the name is a new phenomenon. In past years, Native American activists, who consider the...
by Jessie Atkin | Jul 13, 2020 | Breaking News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE IMAGINING THE INDIAN Filmmakers’ Statement on the Washington Football Team Name Change WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 13, 2020) The Filmmakers behind Imagining the Indian, a documentary film currently in production at The Ciesla Foundation about the...
by Jessie Atkin | Jul 13, 2020 | Press Coverage
“For the times, they are a-changin’,” should be a warning to Dan Snyder, the owner of the Washington, DC football team with the controversial name, that his past declaration to never change the franchise’s name isn’t acceptable anymore as his sponsors are pulling out....
by Jessie Atkin | Jul 13, 2020 | Breaking News
The N.F.L. team in Washington announced Monday that it would drop its logo and “Redskins” from its name, yielding to sponsors and Native American activists who have long criticized it as a racist slur. The team, one of the oldest in the N.F.L., did not announce a new...
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