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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Killingly — Killingly High School will unveil its next mascot by the end of the school year, district leaders said Thursday.

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 ...