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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

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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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....Read More