Cleveland’s Major League Baseball franchise, known as the Indians since 1915, said it would consider changing its nickname, a move that comes amid a recent movement across the U.S. to reexamine iconography that is thought to be racist or racially insensitive.
The team revealed its intentions hours after the NFL’s Washington Redskins—with a moniker commonly seen as a racial slur—announced they would undertake a “thorough review” of their name. People familiar with the matter said it was likely that Washington will change its…