Italian Americans and Columbus Day Parade goers Monday saucily waved off the claim that new DNA evidence shows the controversial explorer was a Sephardic Jew, likely from Spain.

In 1892, U.S. President Benjamin Harrison created Columbus Day as a way to promote Italian-American inclusion in American society. The move was done in response to the 1891 lynching of 11 ...

In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt made Columbus Day a federal holiday at the urging of Italian American leaders, per Teen Vogue.. Robert E. Carlucci, Chairman of the National Italian ...

New York City should recognize this Monday’s holiday as “Columbus Day,” a bipartisan group of City Council members said in a letter this week.. Despite growing pushback on the celebration of ...

Columbus Day Parade celebrates Italian heritage and what unites Americans Singer-songwriter Paul Anka was grand marshal and offered an update of the classic song “My Way.” ...

As someone of both Italian and indigenous heritage, Columbus Day makes me feel shame – not patriotism. Our true American history is one which contains a dark and divisive truth.

From that day to this, Columbus, who was regarded as a national hero of Italian heritage, was embraced by Italian immigrants as a symbol that they would someday be accepted in America.

Signs calling for the abolition of Columbus Day formed the backdrop for a protest in front of city hall in Flagstaff, Arizona. AP Photo/Arizona Daily Sun, Jake Bacon “In 1492, Columbus sailed ...