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.
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.
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...
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...
Dear Friends, As we bring to a close October is Italian Heritage and Culture Month, I want to share with you this timely interview with New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, who was honored this year in the National Columbus Day Parade on Fifth Avenue. Comptroller Di Napoli epitomizes the best in our community as a...