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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Christopher Columbus never set foot on what is now the United States, but his image remains ubiquitous in cities across the globe. There’s a statue of Columbus right here in ...