Dear Friends, Brian Lehrer, a popular radio and podcast host on WNYC in New York City, presented a special segment on Columbus Day, 2023, featuring a decapitated Columbus statue and these words:  "The second Monday in October is now known in New York City as Italian Heritage Day/Indigenous Peoples' Day. Teachers call in to talk about...

I feel honored to be back here to pay tribute to a great Italian historical figure and to a source of pride of the Italian American Community. At a moment when even the Columbus Parade can no longer be called as such in order not to hurt or offend anybody, it is important to ask...

How did Howard Zinn's seed germinate into a movement of societal self-immolation, with Columbus as the proverbial canary in the coal mine? In this interview with Joe Piscopo, best-selling author Mary Grabar deconstructs Zinn, the self-described Marxist who first and wrongly accused Columbus of genocide in his 1980 book, A Peoples History of the United...

New York City Council’s Italian Caucus is fighting back against the attacks by the hateful Woke Crowd on Columbus Day which millions of people across the city, state and nation are celebrating today, the second Monday of October, a state and federal legal holiday.  These uninformed should “drop the hate and seek the truth.” The Caucus on...

Resident Mark Tedesco told the Mt. Vernon City Council that Columbus Day was founded in 1892 to recognize the struggles and contributions of all migrants to the Western Hemisphere.   “The possibility of discovery that drove Columbus was the same spirit of  exploration that drove the first peoples into the Americas,” he said....