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Two bills that were advancing through the Massachusetts House and Senate, seeking to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day, are now all but dead-on-arrival thanks to a viral petition spearheaded by affiliates of the Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations (COPOMIAO).  COPOMIAO President Basil M. Russo, along wit...

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The August Solidarity Session will be held on Tuesday, August 20, 2024 at 8 PM EDT. Join with leaders of the Native American Guardian’s Association (“NAGA”) and representatives of Italian American organizations from around the country at the next monthly Zoom meeting to collaborate in opposing cancel culture. These successful monthly virtual sessio...

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A 2,000-pound bronzed statue of Christopher Columbus has been relocated to the Rockland Sons of Italy Lodge in Blauvelt, NY. The nearly 100-year-old statue, created in 1925, was previously vandalized and defaced during protests in Richmond, Virginia, in 2020. An Italian-American organization fundraised to restore the statue, which arrived at its ne...

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Graffiti was scrawled on monuments outside Union Station in Washington, DC, as protesters flooded the city on Wednesday, July 24. Footage captured by Caleb Condor shows graffiti on the Christopher Columbus Memorial Fountain and the Freedom Bell late Wednesday afternoon. The protests were prompted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit...

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One of the most thrilling and glamorous events in the Chicago-area Italian-American community is the contest to determine who will reign as La Bella Regina of the Columbus Day Parade. “Few events in the community can match the pageantry of the annual Columbus Day Queen pageant,” says Ron Onesti, president of the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Ame...

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New York’s highest court dealt a blow to efforts trying keep the Columbus monument in downtown Syracuse. The Court of Appeals Thursday denied the Columbus Monument Corporation’s appeal of a lower court decision that cleared the way for the city to remove the statue. Mayor Ben Walsh says the ruling is consistent with the city’s firm belief that remo...

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David Lee strummed a guitar while sitting on his front porch in New Haven. He lives two blocks away from Wooster Square Park, where the city installed a new sculpture representing an Italian American immigrant family, replacing a controversial one of Christopher Columbus which was removed by the city. Lee understands why the old statue means so muc...

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After a four-year journey, an Italian-American immigrant family landed in Wooster Square Park on Monday, pointing to both the past and the future. The family — representing the Italian-American immigrants who settled in New Haven a century ago and transformed Wooster Square into the city’s Little Italy — is depicted in a solid bronze statue entitle...

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On April 19, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled 7 to 0 to reinstate a lawsuit to prevent the removal of Pittsburgh’s Christopher Columbus statue from Schenley Park. The suit was filed by the Italian Sons and Daughters of America (ISDA), the largest Italian American fraternal association in Pennsylvania, founded in Pittsburgh in 1930. The...

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Ten years ago a museum of exceptional passion for our country dedicated to Italian emigration was born in Philadelphia. It was Filitalia International that created it, a wonderful organization founded by a remarkable man, Pasquale Nestico. Today his son Saverio heads Filitalia, and he is one of those leaders who guarantee the Italian American commu...

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