A post this morning on their Instagram announced that “After much personal reflection, band discussion, prayer and many honest conversations with some of our closest black friends and colleagues, we have decided to drop the work ‘Antebellum’ from our name and move forward as ‘Lady A’, the nickname our fans gave us almost from the start”
The post continued to say “but we are regretful and embarrassed to say that we did not take into account the associations that weigh down this word referring to the period of history before the Civil War, which includes slavery.”