Columbus Day
Columbus Day
Given the recurrent debate over monuments of dubious distinction I thought to remind people that, as I wrote in 1992: Five hundred years ago an Italian discovered America. Five...
The inane opinions of a few and the diminution of Italian America.
Poet Diana di Prima offers alternative Italian-American heroes to Columbus.
Musings on the symbolic coincidence of the first "Italian month" under an African American president—and what we could make of it.