April 2025 Fighting anti-Italianism, stereotypes and cancel culture: meet Andrè DiMino
READ MOREPerhaps the most important of the things we struggle to understand here in Italy, regarding the needs and struggles of the Italian American community, is the constant fight against stereotypes and cancel culture that has affected and still affects our brothers and sisters of Italian American nationality. However, this is a fundamental issue, one th...
READ MORECOPOMIAO is proud to share an important update in our fight to keep Columbus Day alive in Philadelphia. After our earlier wins — where our outstanding national counsel, George Bochetto of Bochetto & Lentz, P.C., forced the City of Philadelphia to take down a wooden box that obscured the Christopher Columbus statue from public view and thwarted an i...
READ MOREThe Nutley-Belleville Columbus Day Parade and Italian Heritage Committee held their Pasta Dinner fundraiser at the Nutley Parks and Recreation Building, 44 Park Ave. on Sunday afternoon, March 23. According to Bill Freda, trustee, the event saw 280 people. The dinner, catered by Ralph’s Pizzeria, included all-you-can-eat pasta, pizza, soda, bread,...
READ MOREThe interview you're about to read is particularly dear to me, both for the subject it addresses and for the person who represents it. The history of Italians in Los Angeles has always fascinated me because it is somehow different from that of those who emigrated from Italy and settled on the East Coast of the United States. There are certainly sim...
READ MOREThe Italian American One Voice Coalition (“IAOVC”), America’s largest independent Italian American anti-bias organization, was recently advised that the Rockaway, NJ School Board would AGAIN be considering eliminating the Columbus Day holiday on the 2025 – 2026 school calendar. It was just a short three years ago that this was under consideration b...
READ MOREFor 20 years, the Order Sons of Italy in America Giuseppe Garibaldi Lodge #1658 has celebrated Columbus Day. Each year the Sons of Italy honors an Italian American from Hammonton. This year Jack Mazzeo of Mazzeo Studio located at 111 S. Egg Harbor Rd. was honored at the Sons of Italy lodge at 427 N. Third St. on October 14. Mazzeo then gave a prese...
READ MOREI Sud del Mondo held a High-level Press Conference at the Iconic Plaza Hotel on Columbus Day, October 14, 2024 in New York City. The initiative presented by. On. Avv. Giuseppe Galati, Responsible Scientific Director of I Sud del Mondo is entitled "Community Links and Networks for local development; Territorial resilience in Southern Italy. ” This...
READ MOREIn celebration of Columbus Day, Livingston UNICO recently hosted its annual Italian flag raising ceremony at Livingston Town Hall with a subsequent reception featuring traditional Italian refreshments such as espresso, cannolis, homemade panettone, cookies, homemade freselle and gelato donated by Turano’s Pizza Kitchen. “Today we raise the Italian...
READ MOREOver 100 members of the Morgantown Sons and Daughters of Italy and the William Marconi Lodge Sons and Daughters of Italy gathered to observe Columbus Day. The combined clubs met at Muriale's Restaurant in Fairmont WV on Monday, Oct. 14 for a buffet dinner. The two lodges have been planning combined meetings throughout the year to exchange ideas and...
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