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“Columbus On Trial”: Imagines a Clash btw Columbus and Washington’s Confidante

While erecting statues to the Genoese explorer, and opening museums dedicated to him, apparently a lot of things were ignored. There is still much to say about him, and many aspects and experiences to be recounted-- and that’s exactly what Marylou & Jerome Bongiorno tried to do about a year ago. I chatted with the two Emmy-nominated, award-winning, husband and wife filmmakers about their last project, called “Columbus On Trial” which will be coming out in the next few days.

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“Future. Il domani narrato dalle voci di oggi”: Stories of Everyday Resistance and Hope

"Future. Il domani narrato dalle voci di oggi", the first literary anthology by black Italian women, is a contemporary “j’accuse” that denounces the racism and anti-immigrant attitudes that have become widespread in Italian society and politics. Contributors to the landmark book, Candice Whitney, Camilla Hawthorne, Marie Moise and Angela Pesarini, recounted their experiences and spoke about growing resistance to racial injustice during an event at the Calandra Italian American Institute of the City University of New York.

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L’immigrazione e l’emigrazione italiane tra pregiudizio e accoglienza

Prima di cedere il podio ai presentatori, Tamburri nota che, tra il 1880 e il 1920, più di 20 milioni di Italiani hanno lasciato l’Italia. Tamburri introduce  poi un’idea che viene ripresa più volte dai vari presentatori durante i loro discorsi, che è l’idea che la storia ci può aiutare a comprendere i fenomeni che stanno accadendo in Italia in questi giorni. Prima è successo con gli albanesi, poi con gli europei del sud, e poi con gli africani. Come scrisse Gian Antonio Stella, dobbiamo ricordarci “quando gli Albanesi eravamo noi.” Per questo è così importante parlare di entrambi questi fenomeni insieme, emigrazione ed immigrazione

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Italian Immigration and Emigration Between Acceptance and Prejudice

Before opening the floor to the speakers, Tamburri noted that, between 1880 and 1920, more than 20 million people left Italy. He then introduced a really important idea that will be brought up many times during the conversation: history helps us understand the phenomenon that is taking place in Italy right now. It first happened with Albanians, then with Eastern Europeans, and Africans. As Gian Antonio Stella writes, we have to remember “quando gli Albanesi eravamo noi” (“when we were the Albanians”). This is why it’s extremely important to talk about both of these phenomena together, emigration and immigration.

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