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The statue's pedestal removal Thursday angered the president of the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans, who called it ...
A 100-year-old statue of Christopher Columbus that was defaced and uprooted during 2020 protests in Virginia has been proudly put back on display just outside New York City. Blauvelt Sons of Italy ...
Major events for the week of Sunday, Aug. 3, through Saturday, Aug. 9, include Columbus’ voyage, Jesse Owens’s Olympic ...
Artist Preston Jackson was tabbed by the Peoria Park District to construct a new art piece to replace the statue of Christopher Columbus, which was removed from Laura Bradley Park in 2020.
Christopher Columbus received some powerful Old World backing in Manhattan on Tuesday as New York City pols weigh whether to yank statues of him and other now-controversial historical figures.
Port of Spain Mayor Chinua Alleyne yesterday announced that the City Corporation will remove the statue of Christopher ...
The Connecticut artist saw the Christopher Columbus statue being pulled down, with crowds shouting both for and against, on his television. It was June 24, 2020, and Branford artist Marc-Anthony ...
A rare copy of a letter from Columbus to Spain's royals detailing his voyage vanished from a Venice museum in the 1980s. U.S. authorities have repatriated it to Rome after a yearslong investigation.
BOSTON (AP) -- Three years after a Christopher Columbus statue was removed from a square in Providence, Rhode Island, the bronze cast has re-emerged, this time in a park in Johnston, Rhode Island ...
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 ...