Tomas Jirousek is a member of the Blackfoot Confederacy, a group of Indigenous tribes in western Canada. About 25 percent of his hometown of Whitehorse, Yukon is Indigenous. But when Jirousek first ...

The Killingly Board of Education has voted to reinstate the controversial Redmen mascot for the high school. The issue has divided the community for months. Wednesday’s meeting grew heated as board ...

I write and blog exclusively about team nickname and mascot histories (https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/9003004-table-of-contents), so I carefully follow ...

TEWKSBURY — When it comes to playoff hockey, success is built on strong defense, solid goaltending and exceptional teams play. On Monday night, before a crowd of around 1,000, the Tewksbury High boys ...

(CNN) — Less than a year after voting to remove the name of a school mascot that some found racist, the school board of a small Connecticut town has voted to reinstate it. The Redmen, who became the ...

The Redmen nickname will no longer be used for Natick High School's sports teams following the School Committee's unanimous vote not to change its original decision from March 2007. Tears of joy were ...

After months of deliberation, Parma Senior High School has elected to keep its controversial mascot, the “Redmen. ” Parma Schools superintendent Charles Smialek said the decision doesn’t preclude the ...

TEWKSBURY — Sporting red T-shirts, varsity football jerseys, and baseball caps, Tewksbury Memorial High School students packed the school gymnasium Wednesday night to defend their Redmen school mascot ...

There has been a disagreement for years among people in Killingly about whether the school’s former mascot, a depiction of a Plains Indian and the name Redmen, amounts to a racial slur. It was hard to ...

Connecticut school board members decided to reinstate the original name of a local high school's mascot despite complaints from the community and a tribal government office that it is offensive to ...