The city of Columbus officially renamed the holiday in 2020, the same year it removed a statue of Christopher Columbus from its pedestal outside City Hall. The statue had stood there for 65 years.
That pedestal once supported a statue of Christopher Columbus. It was torn down and dumped in the Inner Harbor by protesters at the height of the George Floyd unrest in the summer of 2020. A lot of ...
Pittsburgh officials are allowing a controversial statue of Christopher Columbus to remain mostly uncovered as a lawsuit over the monument’s future stretches into its fifth year. The ...
On Indigenous People’s Day, Oct. 14, we are pleased that the city of Syracuse is acting to reinvigorate the community groups that had been working on the redesign and development of both St ...
“CNY community is ready to reconcile Columbus statue controversy” (Post-Standard, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024) continues to spread a false narrative that contradicts history. References to ...
A survey found that over half of Americans do not believe when they were taught about Christopher Columbus was 100 percent accurate.
The circular plaza where a Christopher Columbus statue overlooked the Inner Harbor is still empty - more than four years after the statue was toppled into the water ...
We recently proudly celebrated our Italian heritage, culture, and the countless contributions Italian Americans have made to this great nation.
In 1999 the Boston Globe printed a guest editorial from a leader of the Massachusetts Historical Society, essentially saying that Boston had no connection to Christopher Columbus, and the statue ...