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The Kansas City Chiefs are returning to the Super Bowl -- and so is the controversy over the team's name CNN 2/7/2021 By Harmeet Kaur, CNN © Jamie Squire/Getty Images The Kansas City Chiefs, who have come under criticism for their name, will face off against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Super Bowl LV. The Kansas City Chiefs are back for another Super Bowl. And inevitably, so is the longstanding controversy over the NFL team's name and Native American imagery. The racial justice movement that was reignited last summer prompted a number of professional sports teams to re-exa...

Popular culture made it impossible to ignore America's reckoning with racism in 2020 By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN Updated 9:03 AM ET, Tue December 22, 2020 (CNN)Whether you lived in rural America, the bustling streets of a big city or even another country, you couldn't ignore the nation's racial reckoning of 2020 -- and how Black Lives Matter resonated throughout popular culture. From the basketball arenas and football fields, to Hollywood movie sets and grocery store shelves, the country was awakened to the inequities that Black and brown people have known for generations. The death of Geor...

Popular culture made it impossible to ignore America’s reckoning with racism in 2020 Whether you lived in rural America, the bustling streets of a big city or even another country, you couldn’t ignore the nation’s racial reckoning of 2020 — and how Black Lives Matter resonated throughout popular culture. From the basketball arenas and football fields, to Hollywood movie sets and grocery store shelves, the country was awakened to the inequities that Black and brown people have known for generations. The death of George Floyd was the tipping point. As video of the brazen police killing ...

The announcement of Rep. Deb Haaland’s nomination last week to become secretary of the Interior uncorked waves of emotion from the Great Lakes to California’s Redwood forests to the Oklahoma plains. A sign of growing political power and organization in Indian Country, Representative Haaland taking lead of the sprawling Department of the Interior would put Native Americans at the forefront of the Biden administration’s efforts to take sweeping action on climate change. Why We Wrote This A dedication to protecting the land has been a hallmark of Native American leaders – but so also hav...

A voice never heard before: The historic significance behind Biden's interior secretary pick Erik Ortiz President-elect Joe Biden's selection of Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., to lead the Department of the Interior — potentially the first Native American to do so and serve as a Cabinet secretary — is being celebrated across Native American groups and viewed as a fresh start for tribal relations with the federal government. The Interior Department is "a massive battleship. It's not going to turn on a dime, but this is the signaling of a new chapter," said Crystal Echo Hawk, exec...