After years of debate and controversy, the Cleveland Indians are changing their name — a move that will happen after the 2021 season, with owner Paul Dolan saying Monday the name “is no longer acceptable in our world.”
News of the impending name-change broke Sunday in an anonymously sourced New York Times story, but the Indians announced the decision on Monday with Dolan giving a comprehensive interview on the subject to the Associated Press.
In it, he talks about his own awakening toward the suffering the name has brought to Native Americans, his first choice for a replacement, why he’s already decided against it and what’s next in the saga.