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Cleveland Indians baseball team to change name over racist complaints, while Donald Trump blasts ‘cancel culture’ – ABC News

The Major League baseball team for the US city of Cleveland will drop the name “Indians” after Native American groups criticised the moniker as racist.

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The Major League baseball team for the US city of Cleveland will drop the name “Indians” after Native American groups criticised the moniker as racist.
Key points:

  • Owner Paul Dolan says “it’s time” to change the name, and the club has had months of internal discussions and meetings over it
  • The team will still play, and be branded, as the Indians at least through next season
  • The name change is the latest by an organisation in the wake of widespread civil rights protests last summer to have prejudicial…

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