Washington Redskins name controversy

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The Washington Redskins name controversy involved the name and logo used from 1937 to 2020 by the Washington Commanders, a National Football League (NFL) team in the Washington metropolitan area. In the 1970s, the team's longtime name and logo began to draw criticism from Native American groups and individuals. The topic, part of the larger Native American mascot controversy, began receiving widespread public attention in the 1990s. In 2020, the team responded to economic pressure in the wake of the George Floyd protests by retiring the name and logo. The team called itself the "Washington Football Team" before rebranding as the Commanders in 2022. "Redskin" is a pejorative slang term, considered by some a racial slur, for Native Americans in the United States and First Nations in Canada. The term redskin underwent pejoration in the 19th to early 20th centuries, and in contemporary dictionaries of American English it is labeled as offensive, disparaging, or insulting. The Cambridge Dictionary...

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