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U.S. Government Shutdown and Immigration Agencies

Annalisa Liuzzo

If Congress does not resolve the budgetary deadlock by midnight, Saturday, April 9, the government will shutdown until a compromise is reached. Generally, if the government shuts...

Rethinking 150 Years

Joey Skee

The living links between Italian unification and Italian emigration.

At Lampedusa, “The End of the World”

Judith Harris

The Sicilian island where hope and desperation coexist has become a prime transit site for illegal immigrants hoping to make it into Europe

Click Day in Italy: The Immigration Lottery

Maria Rita Latto

On Monday, January 31, at 8am, Italy launched Click Day, the digital presentation of immigrant employment according to the planned quotas. The first applications to reach the...

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The Mussolini Contradiction - Boston’s North End “Street Corner Society”

Tom Verso

"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones..." Shakespeare

Scandals and Controversies. Gheddafi's Visit Leaves Italians Dumbfounded

Maria Rita Latto

Words and actions that attracted the attention of the national media and the general public and caused controversies and debates in the political world. Gheddafi's visit, intended...

Music & Words. Prose & Poetry. Two Days in New York with Gianmaria Testa

Marina Melchionda

A concert at Joe's Pub in NoHo to present his latest album in front of an international public; a glass of wine and a long chat in SoHo. During our moments spent in New York...

Destroying Roots or Planting New Seeds?

Benedetta Grasso

On April 5 2010, a great deal of people rallied to save Our Lady of Loreto Church from destruction. The church is not only a historical symbol for Italian Americans but also...

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Between Past and Present

Benedetta Grasso

99 years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire many people gathered for a moving commemoration and a series of educational events to inspire everyone to create a safer and better...

Wise Men Melchior and Balthazar Banned in Northern Italian City

Joey Skee

A story about racism in contemporary Italy so absurd it could be true.

Lo straniero (Part One)

Douglas Grant Mine

Journalist and novelist Douglas Grant Mine, a former correspondent for the AP who now lives in Italy with his family, tells the exhilarating, thought-provoking story of an...

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

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