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A Stephen Briganti il “Da Vinci Award”, a festeggiarlo anche il cugino Bill de Blasio

Con il sindaco Bill de Blasio, il Console Generale Francesco Genuardi e il presidente della IHCC-NY Joseph Sciame, alla cerimonia di premiazione per Stephen Briganti, sono intervenute anche le deputate elette al Parlamento italiano dal Nord -Centro America, le onorevoli Fucsia Fitzgerald Nissoli e Francesca La Marca. La presenza del sindaco di New York alla cerimonia coincideva con le recentissime e accese polemiche che lo hanno coinvolto sulla mancata assegnazione di una statua per Mother Cabrini

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Being Italian American: Why Columbus Day Gives Me a Headache

You can make film after film and T.V. show after T.V. show focusing on every negative stereotype and caricature of Italian-Americans with impunity, and you can continue to ignore the great contributions Italian Americans have made to our society, as when Chirlaine McCray de Blasio ignored the results of a public poll and snubbed the winner, Mother Cabrini. No other ethnic group is so consistently marginalized and belittled so freely as ours.

New York -

NIAF Denounces: Mother Cabrini #1 Choice, Yet Statue to Her Denied in NYC

“Mother Cabrini’s contribution to New York City and her legacy are indisputable. The services she provided to poor and vulnerable Italian immigrants, most of them women, should not be ignored,” said NIAF Chair Patricia de Stacy Harrison. “On behalf of the National Italian American Foundation, we support Mother Cabrini’s life and works and believe that she should have her own honorary statue in the city.” 

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