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There are no less than 60 cities, towns, and counties named after Christopher Columbus in the United States, not the least of which is our nation’s capital, the District of Columbia and, somewhat ironically, a current hotbed of anti-Western thought in America’s vaunted system of higher-education, Columbia University.Read More

Five New York House members — including progressive Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamaal Bowman — are being accused of spreading “hate” by pushing to scrap Columbus Day.Read More

Join us on Fifth Avenue today at NOON for a celebration of singing, dancing, bursting colors, marching bands and much more entertainment at the National Columbus Day Parade. The New York spectacular is the largest of the hundreds of celebrations of Italian and Italian American culture going on across the nation. Clear skies and crisp...Read More

Italian American’s rightful celebration for Columbus the Explorer has always been understood in the wider context of humanity’s intrinsic desire to know. The undeniable truth is that the human spirit of exploration propelled the discovery of a new gateway to the Americas.Read More

We are so proud of Comptroller Tom DiNapoli. A great Italian American and beacon for all that is good as an elected official who is unquestionably admired and respected by everyone. Bravo Tom honored to be your friend!Read More

Eight years ago, the Woke community unleashed a hailstorm of malicious and hurtful attacks on statues, holidays, Italian Americans and Christopher Columbus that rivaled the marches of the Ku Klux Klan against our community a century ago.Read More

Rocco Commisso, a self-made, hugely successful Italian American businessman, has achieved a major victory by securing an apology from the Milan-based La Gazzetta Dello Sport for its crude and hurtful “Italian American = Mafioso” statement.Read More

For more than 900,000 students in New York City Public Schools, September 5th marked the first day of the academic calendar and a new season of exploration, discovery and deeper understanding. But September 5th also marks the 4th anniversary of shame, when Columbus Day, a state and federal legal holiday, was suppressed without warning from the public...Read More

Dear Friends, We stand with Israel. We support its right to exist among its neighbors in peace. We can never tolerate hatred of one culture, ethnicity, race or religion, the hatred of our brothers and sisters of the Jewish faith. We are saddened by all the suffering and abhor the cycle of hate and terrorism...Read More