LATEST: The Washington NFL franchise announces it's changing it's name, for now, to 'Washington Football Team.'
Redskins change name following years of backlash.The Washington NFL franchise on Thursday announced on“It begins here...” it said in a tweet with an image reading, “Washington Football Team, est. 1932.”
The initial decision to change the name came after heavy public pressure from corporate sponsors, including FedEx, Nike, and PepsiCo, amid the Black Lives Matter movement. As Confederate statues were torn down or removed across the country and NASCAR banned the Confederate flag, calls to change the team’s name grew as questions about racial and cultural justice came to the forefront in American life.
But the debate over the team’s name, which is seen as a racial slur against Native Americans, has been going on for decades.
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