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Ralph Rucci: From Philadelphia to Paris

Marisa Iallonardo

One of America’s most prominent designers also has Italian roots

Italian Pop Stars Hit the Hudson Terrace

Gabrielle Anne Pati

On Wednesday, October 28th 2009, the Commissione Giovani New York (CGNY) will host the first ever Young Italian Music Festival at the chic Hudson Terrace. The concert, from...

Between Black and White. The First Columbus Day of the Obama Era

Ottorino Cappelli

Musings on the symbolic coincidence of the first "Italian month" under an African American President—and what we could make of it

Italian American Identity: To Be or Not To Be

Michael Parenti*

To frame the Italian-American experience within a context of struggle for social justice and economic survival is to give it a dimension that goes beyond nostalgia and...

“Cucina Italica”? An Exercise in Post-Colonial, Mutual Understanding

Ottorino Cappelli

Can you “cook good and eat well” even if you are not trying to imitate some dinner from some far-off restaurant in Italy? Musings around an interesting article, the politics...

A Tragedy Without Borders. Solidarity from New York

O. C.

Two days after the Abruzzo earthquake, members of the Italian American caucus of the New York City Council call upon everybody, regardless of their ethnic background, to assist...

A Brief Return to Rationalism

Maria Laurino

How British rationalists first soothe, then make me seethe.

Felix Stefanile, the "Everyman" Poet

Anthony Julian Tamburri

Italian America has lost one of its greatest poets and thinkers. In exhorting his Italian/American sisters and brothers to learn of their history, he once stated, "There is no...

Sacred Space, Real Estate, and the Enacted Environment

Joey Skee

Two religious buildings historically associated with Italian-American Catholics face challenges to survive.

Obamania or Obamaphobia: Italians in a Post-Bush America

Jerry Krase

Italian American intellectuals and Italians in Italy might have given great support to Barack Obama's historic Presidential triumph but Italian American voters, at least those in...

Racism/Razzismo Part II: Yusuf Hawkins and the Closing of the American Mind

Jerry Krase

This was the first of two articles I wrote in The Brooklyn Free Press shortly after Yusuf Hawkins' murder in the summer of 1989. Although it concerns his brutal slaying by a...

No Wonder His Happy Heart Sings

Stephanie Longo

Take love of community, ethnic pride, and add a dash of Dean Martin and you have Scranton’s own Jack DeLeo.

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