Opinion

There’s a name for the Washington football team that could end an insult and honor black heroes

Lisa Bratton, an assistant professor of history at Tuskegee University, was a historian for the National Park Service’s Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project.

In a potentially watershed moment when this nation — perhaps unwillingly — seems prepared to revisit its racial outlook, an overdue name change could play an important role. It offers a chance to not only erase a prominent symbol of white racism but also replace it with an icon of African American heroism.