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If you’re a loyal listener to the Italian American Podcast, you’ll know that technology isn’t exactly an area we focus on week in and week out.  Artificial intelligence and chat-bots and whatnots might not exactly be our expertise, but for this week’s guest, the rapidly unfolding revolution in artificial intelligence has become a valuable tool in h...

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First-generation Italian immigrants faced numerous challenges when they came to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Discrimination and defamation were among the most significant challenges that they had to deal with. One of the primary forms of discrimination that Italian immigrants faced was racial prejudice. Many American...

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The timing of this article for the May issue is interesting, because I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my mom Dora. She was an amazing woman. I know nearly everyone says that, but really, she was. Italy was in bad shape after World War II when my grandfather Umberto Romeo decided to come to America to find work. My mom was a young girl when her...

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Attorney Antonietta Brancaccio- Honorary Consul of Italy, was chosen with other 200 lawyers to speak on behalf of immigrants. Divided into teams, they met Senators and Deputies starting from Washington DC and reaching all states. Attorney Brancaccio was assigned to Florida's 21st District where she met with representatives of Republican Congressman...

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Sister Blandina Segale was an Italian immigrant who came to the Wild West town of Trinidad, Colorado, at the age of only 22. Amid her efforts to start schools and hospitals, she intervened against lynch mobs, conversed with outlaws, and lived such a life that she is now a candidate for sainthood. Her life and the history of 1870s Trinidad have insp...

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Two upcoming events co-hosted by Fordham’s Italian Studies program and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures will offer students and the public an opportunity to engage more deeply with the memories of millions of Italian immigrants across the world. Both groups will welcome Margherita Ganeri, Ph.D., an award-winning visiting scholar f...

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While preparing a global outreach for my foundation’s WorldCast 23 environmental studies broadcast for high school students, I pondered the vast settlement of Italians worldwide, the Italian diaspora. Americans, particularly Italian Americans, are barely aware of the dimensions of the Italian diaspora. People of Italian heritage have played major r...

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Josephine Pasquarello discusses her families arrival to Philadelphia in the late 1800’s and her book “Life’s Journey”. Josephine is the tenth child of an immigrant Italian woman who is the heroine of this book. She is a wife, mother, and grandmother, living in the suburbs of Philadelphia. She graduated from West Philly Catholic Girls’ High School i...

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Historically, coastal cities in the United States have been a haven for immigrants around the world. During waves of massive immigration, many Italians left their homes and sojourned across the Atlantic to New York City. While the northeast of the US is well known for its large immigration population, many Italian immigrants traveled further south...

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Tony Danza was brought to tears while learning about the struggles his maternal grandfather endured on his journey to become a U.S. citizen during an appearance on Season Eight of the PBS show “Finding Your Roots.” While chatting with the show’s host, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Danza explained how he always thought his grandfather, Antonino Camisa, cam...

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