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JOUR 447: Sports, Protest and the Media

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People with signs protest the Washington NFL team in Minneapolis, 2014

Photograph by Fibonacci Blue (2014), Wikimedia Commons. Licensed CC BY 2.0.

People protesting the Washington NFL team in Minneapolis, MN, November 2, 2014. Indigenous groups had criticized the "Washington Redskins" name since the 1960s, but the team did not officially retire the name until 2020, in response to intensifying societal and economic pressure. They adopted the current name, the "Washington Commanders," in 2022.