The Seattle City Council has voted unanimously to create an Indigenous People’s Day that Italian Americans complain wipes out their own heritage and celebration. And they’re vowing a strong response ...
In Akron, a city with few Native Americans and a large Italian-American community, an attempt to rename Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples Day on Sept. 11 split the all-Democrat city council along ...
Seattle’s Italian-American community is running a full page ad in The Seattle Times Monday as part of its new effort to counter the city’s newly created Indigenous People’s Day. Seattle Mayor Ed ...
On Monday, banks, schools, post offices and more will close across Connecticut. At the federal and state levels, this is because of Columbus Day, a longstanding federal holiday observed annually on ...
We’ve all heard of Columbus Day—it’s a federal October holiday in the U.S. that marks the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas. But have you heard about Indigenous Peoples’ Day? This ...
A movement to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples Day has new momentum but the gesture to recognize victims of European colonialism has also prompted howls of outrage from some ...