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Columbus State Community College will remove the statute of Columbus that has stood on the grounds since 1988.  In a open letter on their website board of trustees president Anthony Joseph wrote: “We do not seek to erase history, but to make an intentional shift in what we visibly honor and celebrate as an institution. This is the first of many ste...

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Top California lawmakers on Tuesday ordered the removal of a marble sculpture depicting explorer Christopher Columbus and his patron, Queen Isabella, from the Capitol Rotunda. The statue has been in the Capitol for more than a century. Top lawmakers called for its removal a day after a statue showing white settler John Sutter was taken down in fron...

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A bronze statue of Christopher Columbus erected in Tower Grove Park in 1886 was taken off its pedestal and removed Tuesday at the direction of the park’s Board of Commissioners, making St. Louis the latest of several U.S. cities to contend with controversial monuments this month amid national protests for racial justice. The statue on Main Drive...

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 Il Governo italiano dovrebbe “attivarsi, sul piano politico e diplomatico, affinché sia salvaguardata l'eredità culturale italiana negli Usa e la figura simbolo di tale eredità incarnata da Cristoforo Colombo”. Questo il dispositivo della mozione presentata dalla deputata di Forza Italia Fucsia Nissoli e sottoscritta da altri 28 colleghi di tutti...

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Nelle notti tra Venerdi' e Sabato sono continuate le ondate di atti vandalici con pitture sparse che hanno danneggiato e sfregiato le Statue in alcune citta' degli States, tra cui Chicago, dove ci sono 3 monumenti dedicati al grande navigatore ed esploratore genovese Cristoforo Colombo. Un atmosfera sempre piu' pesante quella che si respira negli S...

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Detroit’s Christopher Columbus bust was removed from its pedestal on Monday as protests against racism and police brutality continue in the city. Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan ordered the bust to be removed. It will be placed in storage as the city decides what to do with the monument long-term. The Columbus bust has been a target of vandalism in the c...

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Christopher Columbus' head just barely peeks over a segment of black corrugated pipe. The eight-foot statue has served as a symbol of the City of Poughkeepsie's Italian Center since it was erected in 1992. But as of Friday, the Italian Center has covered the bronze monument. The change comes amid a renewed nationwide push protesting monuments erect...

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New Haven and Hartford became the latest Connecticut cities Monday to say they would remove statues honoring Christopher Columbus from public property. Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin said in a statement released by his office Monday evening that a Columbus statue near the state Capitol would be “removed from city property.” “When the statue of Co...

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In what the president of UNICO called “lowlife cowardly acts,” vandals in Garfield defaced a Christopher Columbus statue and damaged a local elementary school named for the Italian explorer. Police were actively pursuing leads in finding those responsible for what Mayor Richard Rigoglioso called “hateful and disrespectful” acts, and said they’d be...

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Sign to KEEP same sanctity to the town we love. Shared from my former teacher at Seton Hall Prep for the incredibly ignorant trash on this page. For the first time EVER I am EMBARRASSED for West Orange. Reposting from Anthony Lupica: Che disgrazia! What a disgrace to have destroyed and defaced the statuary of Cristopher Columbus! Those responsible...

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