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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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While some Connecticut municipalities are removing Christopher Columbus statues in the face of renewed outcry over his history of slavery and genocide against Native Americans, the future of the city’s own monument to the Italian explorer remains unclear. Mayor Harry Rilling said the city has not received any requests to remove the Columbus statue,...

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The Christopher Columbus statue in Wooster Square in New Haven was vandalized Saturday, and it wasn’t the first time. According to New Haven Police, Saturday evening around 6:30 p.m. officers responded to a protest that began to form around Wooster Square Park. Police report approximately 20-30 people had gathered around the Columbus statue in the...

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Amid nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd have come renewed calls to remove certain monuments from public spaces, including those venerating Confederate leaders in towns and cities across the south, and others honoring Christopher Columbus — which can be found in public squares in all corners of the country. Including Stamford. Mayo...

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Councilman Jorge Cruz watched last week as New Haven and Hartford moved ahead with taking down statues of Christopher Columbus and wondered, why not here? “He don’t deserve to be honored with a statue at Seaside Park,” Cruz said of the monument to the Genoese explorer that has stood in his South End district since the mid-1960s. “I’ve had animosity...

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Nei giorni scorsi sono stati pubblicati rapporti sulla scarsa efficacia dei corsi online per gli studenti americani costretti a casa dal coronavirus. Ma fanno eccezione i corsi di italiano promossi e finanziati dallo IACE, Italian American Committee on Education, nelle scuole pubbliche e private degli Stati di New York, New Jersey e Connecticut. Da...

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The present demonization of Christopher Columbus in New Haven, as well as in the rest of the country, is a misguided rush to judgment. To blame Columbus for all the inequities of European colonialism is not only absurd but inaccurate and anachronistic. To be sure, the Columbian Exchange and settlement of the Americas by Europeans was achieved by a...

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The New London City Council has voted to permanently remove the city's Christopher Columbus statue. New London Mayor Michael Passero decided to remove the statue last week to protect it from more potential vandalism. It was taken down on Sunday. At a virtual meeting Tuesday, more than 60 spoke before city councilors passed an ordinance stating that...

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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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On Saturday, the statue of Christopher Columbus in Harbor Park was removed. On Sunday, Mayor Ben Florsheim took to Facebook to explain why the sculpture, which he said had been “donated by several groups of local, mostly Italian-American families in the mid-1990s,” was taken down. “First, it has been slated for a temporary move for a while,” Florsh...

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