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Italian Americans celebrating during a Christopher Columbus Day parade.

How Columbus Day contributes to the cultural erasure of Italian Americans

October 11, 2021Culture

Given Italian history, US descendants of Italian immigrants have reason to reject their association with Columbus and stand in solidarity with Indigenous groups as they reclaim their histories.

three cars are parked in front of a wall with graffiti

Shopkeepers sue Sicilian Mafia in first-ever migrant-led case

August 8, 2019Immigration

Young migrants in Sicily heal from sea-crossing traumas through theater

November 13, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Syrian refugee girl rests inside the Spanish rescue vessel Astral after being rescued by the Spanish NGO Proactiva off the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea.

Migrants desperate to flee Libya’s detention camps are being turned back at sea

November 27, 2017Conflict

Venice prepares for autonomy vote on Sunday

October 20, 2017Global Politics

Barcelona soccer fans make their feelings known about Catalan independence, at a game on Wednesday Oct 18th 2017

The roots of Catalonia’s differences with the rest of Spain

October 19, 2017Culture

With Catalonia threatening to declare independence from Spain, we look into the origins of the dispute between Barcelona and Madrid.

New York City's ‘Little Italy’. Mulberry Street, Lower East Side, circa 1900

A brief history of America’s hostility to a previous generation of Mediterranean migrants — Italians

November 25, 2015Justice

A wave of migrants from the Mediterranean meets a hostile reception from many Americans. The migrants are seen as alien in religion, culture, politics, law. So different in fact that some Americans argue that they can never be assimilated. They are the Italians, in the 1890s.

"The Door of Lampedusa, Door of Europe" underscores the situation of refugees who arrive on Lampedusa as the entry point to the rest of Europe.

The refugee tragedy at Lampedusa seems all too familiar to a reporter covering the US-Mexico border

October 21, 2013Conflict & Justice

Valeria Fernandez is an Arizona-based reporter who covers immigration along the US-Mexico border. Last week, she interrupted her vacation to go to the Italian island of Lampedusa, where hundreds of African migrants drowned in a shipwreck.

Italy’s Mafia Gets Into Renewables

August 15, 2013Conflict & Justice

A multi-year investigation and sting operation has revealed deep infiltration into the wind and solar sector by Italy’s crime families.

Remembering opera singer Salvatore Licitra

August 15, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

Italian opera singer Salvatore Licitra died today at 43, nine days after suffering severe injuries in a scooter accident in Sicily. Licitra was regarded as the greatest tenor since Luciano Pavarotti.