Cleveland Indians to drop controversial nickname affiliated with player from Maine’s Penobscot Nation by Larry Mahoney, Bangor Daily News December 15, 2020 Ed Rice’s phone was ringing off the hook on Monday. People wanted to talk about the news that Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Indians intend to abandon their longstanding name, one that is considered by many to be offensive. “I am stunned,” said an elated Rice, who has spent nearly 40 years researching and telling the … [Read more...]
Hidden heroes have done the right thing on Indian mascots
We don't hear enough about the schools that have stepped up over the last decade. BY ED RICE All through the late 1990s and well into the 2000s, I was part of the growing national movement to get the Cleveland Indians to drop Chief Wahoo — perhaps, the most racist caricature in use in American society. Frustration with that effort, ultimately successful after many years, led me to more than a decade of trying to work to see that all such offensive nicknames and mascots end in my home state … [Read more...]