Five years after the city's namesake statue came down, Reimagining Columbus is ready to present its vision for how to display ...

State Democrats plan to make Indigenous People’s Day an official holiday in Virginia and will discuss the proposal in the ...

A coalition of 40 Italian-American groups ripped socialist Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani as a hater and divider ...

A Philadelphia appellate court has ruled to restore Columbus Day and preserve the Columbus statue, marking a significant win for the city’s Italian American community after years of legal and cultural ...

A statue of Christopher Columbus in Providence was vandalized in 2019. It later was moved to a park in Johnston, R.I. Michelle R. Smith/Associated Press ...

The statue committee unanimously passed a motion on Nov. 10, with one member absent, that said it does "conditionally recommend the return of the Christopher Columbus statue to a public location ...

In 2022, a Columbus statue was removed from the California Capitol rotunda. Also last year, crews removed a plywood box that had been placed over a Philadelphia statue of Christopher Columbus.

On June 9 in Richmond, Va.—two weeks into the protests following the police killing of George Floyd—demonstrators gathered at a statue of Christopher Columbus in the city’s Near West End.

First, county commissioners stripped Columbus Day from the paid-holiday calendar. Then, a construction crew hauled the 22-foot-tall bronze statue of Christopher Columbus from the city hall plaza ...

After Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue, the physical remains of his ships -- the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria -- remain lost. Bettmann Archive The 15th century explorer landed ...

When Christopher Columbus does come up in the media or the classroom, he is usually simply bashed or praised, depending on the viewpoint of the speaker. In either case, he remains more myth than man.

Every time I walk by the statue of Christopher Columbus a few blocks south of my Philadelphia office, I get flashbacks about ...