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Ma in fondo, Cristoforo Colombo cosa ha sbagliato? Beh, po' tutto, ammettiamolo, a cominciare dal continente. Cercava le Indie e si è arenato in America. Voleva diventare ricco ed è morto, sconosciuto ai più, in povertà. Agli americani poi, ma anche a tanti italiani, va detto, di lui non è mai realmente importato troppo. Il celebrato (e oggi tanto...

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The Board of Education voted to change the name of Christopher Columbus Family Academy and to change the name of Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The school’s name will go before a committee, which will be tasked with collecting input and providing a recommendation on a new name. The change to the holiday name will only impact what is recog...

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The city’s Christopher Columbus statues have been repeatedly vandalized in recent weeks amid renewed calls the monuments should be torn down. The Christopher Columbus statue in Little Italy’s Arrigo Park recently had the word “killer” sprayed on it, and someone dumped paint on it. In Grant Park, another Columbus statue was spray painted with the wo...

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Growing in their racial and cultural understanding of one another, City Council has consulted Akron’s Italian and Black communities as it again debates whether to right a historic wrong by removing Columbus Day from the local calendar. The legacy of Italian explorer and statesman Christopher Columbus, whose 1492 landing in the Americas was declared...

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It’s been two years since the bronze statue of Pittsburgh-born composer Stephen Foster and a barefoot black man playing a banjo was removed from Schenley Plaza. The statue was denounced for decades, but the criticism gained steam in the aftermath of a deadly protest in Charlottesville, Va. over the removal of Confederate monuments. The city held pu...

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The destruction of the statues of Columbus is certainly no surprise, because for some time now in the USA Columbus has become a symbol of the beginning of the process of extermination of Native Americans. It is not just a logical fallacy of the "post hoc, ergo propter hoc" kind, so the discoverer of the Americas is ipso facto responsible for everyt...

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The Baltimore City Council is considered renaming 1 of 3 monuments dedicated to Christopher Columbus across the city. It comes as several state's grapple with how to handle removing monuments and statues of controversial historical figures. The proposal was introduced by City Councilman Ryan Dorsey Monday and would rededicate an obelisk monument at...

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Town leaders want to hear residents’ opinions on the Christopher Columbus statue in front of the John Weichsel Municipal Center at a public hearing next month. Chris Palmieri, a Democrat and Town Council minority leader, suggested the public hearing. His idea was unanimously approved Monday night by the council, which has a Republican majority. “We...

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The Board of Education voted overwhelmingly in support of removing Christopher Columbus’s name from a Fair Haven K-8 school—as well as from an October holiday on the district’s calendar—in the city’s latest reckoning with the 15th-century explorer’s violent legacy. School board members took that vote Monday night during their most recent regular bi...

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Christopher Columbus is again under siege. New York police currently surround the 75-foot-high bronze Jeronimo Sunol monument to the explorer, which has stood in Central Park since 1894, describing it as “a known target” to those who put Columbus in the same class as Confederate generals and slave traders. Indeed, vandals in Boston decapitated the...

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