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Columbus Day

Whose Day Is It Anyway?

Joey Skee

Poet Diana di Prima offers alternative Italian-American heroes to Columbus.

What Columbus Day Really Means

William J. Connell

If you think the holiday pits Native Americans against Italian Americans, consider the history behind its origin

Italian Americans Between Guidos and Columbus. An Interview with Nancy Carnevale

Ottorino Cappelli

There is nothing new in certain segments of the community trying to impose their views of what it means to be Italian American on others. This controversy reminds me of recent...

ElliSicily. ANFE in New York & New Jersey. A Week in the Name of Legality

Italy's National Association of Migrant Families (ANFE), is in New York for the Italian Heritage and Culture Month with a very busy ageda of meetings, conferences, and encounters....

Between Black and White. The First Columbus Day of the Obama Era

Ottorino Cappelli

Musings on the symbolic coincidence of the first "Italian month" under an African American President—and what we could make of it

Italian American Identity: To Be or Not To Be

Michael Parenti*

To frame the Italian-American experience within a context of struggle for social justice and economic survival is to give it a dimension that goes beyond nostalgia and...

Il Ritorno

Louis Tallarini and Anthony J. Tamburri

The President of the Columbus Citizens Foundation and the Dean of the Calandra Italian American Institute talk about Italy, the "land of their return". And about their first...

Berlusconi in the U.S. on Columbus Day

Bush invited Italy's Prime Minister to dine at the White House. "It will be a great occasion to celebrate and renew our long-lasting and intimate friendship".

It Wasn’t Columbus’ Fault. Or Was It?

Ottorino Cappelli

Musings around a frivolous article about very serious things... and some suggestions for those who think that Christopher Columbus was just an "Italian" hero.

“Migrantes”: a Report about ‘Italians' Spread Around the Word

The Catholic immigration organization “Migrantes” released a report stating that more people have emigrated from Italy than any other industrialized country over the last 150...

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