Italian American One Voice Coalition Raps Saturday Night Live for Pattern of Bigoted Italian Slurs
The Italian American One Voice Coalition (“IAOVC”), the nation’s largest independent Italian American anti-bias organization, is calling out Saturday Night Live (“SNL”) for perpetrating a pattern of bigoted, racial slurs of Italians. SNL has launched a pattern of comments now equating Italians as non-whites. In a skit on the last show, guest Lady G...
Dante Alighieri and NIAF join forces to promote Italian language and culture in the USA
On March 10 in Rome at Palazzo Firenze, the headquarters of the Dante Alighieri Society, an important agreement was signed between President Andrea Riccardi and Robert Allegrini, President of the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF). This agreement marks a pivotal step in promoting the Italian language and culture in the United States, a sha...
Angels LHP Samuel Aldegheri Prepares for 2025 Season and Italy’s 2026 WBC Run
With two weeks remaining in spring training before the start of the 2025 Major League Baseball season, World Baseball Network visited the Cactus League to interview Italian-born left-hander Samuel Aldegheri about his expectations for the upcoming season and the 2026 World Baseball Classic with the Italian national team. “It’s been a dream of mine s...
UNICO National Celebrates Italian American Community at Mid-Year Meeting in Chicago Metropolitan and Prepares for Upcoming 102nd Annual Convention
UNICO National celebrated the achievements and contributions of Italian Americans at its Mid-Year Board of Directors Meeting and Presidential Awards Banquet. The special event was held in the Chicago suburbs of Rosemont, Illinois on March 8, 2025 where two distinctly accomplished Italian Americans were honored. The Guglielmo Marconi Science Award w...
Remembering Joe Petrosino, an Italian-American hero
Who knows what the weather was like at 8:45 p.m. on that Friday, March 12, 1909, in Palermo? A few people stood at the tram terminus in Piazza Marina when the sudden crack of four gunshots shattered the evening calm. Panic swept over them. Some ran, others froze in place. Only one man — a sailor from Ancona named Alberto Cardella, who had just dise...
Italian American Podcast Ep. 360 Are Italian Americans MADE IN ITALY?”
Unlock the secrets of Italian American cultural identity as we gather in the vibrant heart of Little Italy at Red Sauce Studio. Join us for an exciting episode where the beloved kazoo makes a triumphant return, and we share a laugh over tales of Naples’ infamous currency forgery. We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Marcella Martin, whose expertise on Ita...
“Italian and Proud of it,” Lady Gaga Plays Up Her Roots While Promoting “Mayhem”
Lady Gaga is making waves again with her 7th album, Mayhem. After years of transformations and metamorphoses, the artist seems to have decided to look at herself and recognize who she is, no longer needing masks. The result is an opus that embodies her most authentic spirit, capable of blending the past and present in an explosion of sounds and sen...
Finding Home: An Italian American Journey of Leadership and Heritage
The prestigious Donna Distinta Award, presented by the Italian Sons and Daughters of America and the Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations, celebrates outstanding women of Italian descent to spotlight their contributions, from culture and industry to philanthropy and advocacy. The March 2025 Donna Distinta Award goes to M...
Guitarist Paolo Angeli’S USA tour
The American tour of guitarist Paolo Angeli covers a dozen states. It started on March 6 in Cleveland, continuing to New York (at the legendary “The Public Theater”), then Baltimore and Philadelphia. On March 13 and 14, Angeli will perform four sets at SFJazz, the most prestigious jazz club in San Francisco thanks to the support of the Italian Cult...
Elon Musk’s DOGE department freezes NATO base payments in Italy
The United States Government Efficiency Department (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, has blocked the business payment cards of employees at the NATO base in Aviano, northern Italy, which is managed by American forces. According to the newspaper Il Messaggero, only one dollar was left on the cards. The Italian newspaper reported that 60 civilian employees'...
Another discovery from the collaboration between Italy and the US, this time about pancreatic cancer
At the root of pancreatic cancer’s aggressiveness is a particular transformation that pancreatic cells undergo, making them capable, even in the early stages of the disease, of forming metastases and resisting therapy. This is what researchers from the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, led by Giannicola Genovese, discovered in a study published...
Tracing the History of Ancient Roman and American Architecture, by Sophia Anderson
Providing insight to the beliefs, values, and needs of a particular culture, architecture and design prove crucial to better understanding a group of people. The design of different buildings and structures, for instance, must be functional to meet the needs of a community, but the way in which the design accomplishes its goals reveals the values o...