BY: Thomas Breen
Good-bye, Columbus Day. Hello, Italian Heritage Day. Starting this year, the city-recognized holiday on the second Monday in October will no longer be named after the 15th-century European explorer whom many Italian-Americans celebrated as a heroic, cultural icon, and whom critics lambasted as an enslaver of Indigenous peoples and an emblem of violent white supremacy.
Local legislators took that unanimous holiday-renaming vote Monday evening during the regular bimonthly meeting of the full Board of Alders. The virtual meeting took place online via the Zoom videoconferencing platform. City Services and Environmental Policy (CSEP) Committee Chair and East Rock Alder Anna Festa urged her colleagues to support the vote by referring back to an August public hearing on the matter.
SOURCE: https://www.newhavenindependent.org
The Columbus Day Committee of Atlantic City along with the Bonnie Blue Foundation annually...
The Mattatuck Museum (144 West Main St. Waterbury, CT 06702) is pleased to celebrate...
Tuesday, April 14 - 6.30 pm EDTSt. James Church Rocky Hill - 767 Elm St, Rocky Hill,...
Acclaimed storyteller Monica Peterson shares fascinating family lore that she learned at t...
The debate over turning Columbus Day into Indigenous Peoples’ Day has people riled up on b...
by David Holahan Guido Calabresi, an esteemed Yale law prof and federal appellate...
The 2013 Columbus Italian Festival will celebrate and showcase all things Italian during i...
A little bit of living history will be on display in Fort Walton Beach now through Jan. 2....