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Americans Can’t Decolonize Their Holidays Soon Enough
Oct 10, 2019 Columbus Day is increasingly being replaced by a celebration of indigenous peoples and their central role in our history and in our future.
The Only Way White Supremacy Is Defeated
Apr 5, 2019 Professor and activist Melina Abdullah dissects the dangers of Donald Trump's presidency, the legacy of the Black Power Movement and more.
Stop Calling Anyone ‘Pocahontas’
Nov 29, 2017 Donald Trump's latest insult to Native Americans offers a teachable moment that most of America missed.
It’s Time to Stop Celebrating Columbus Day
Oct 12, 2015 Honoring Columbus Day means honoring a painful history of colonialism, enslavement, discrimination and land grabs that followed the Italian explorer’s 1492 arrival in the Americas. It's time to stop celebrating it and start celebrating the native cultures that his arrival in the Americas began the process of displacing.This Columbus Day May Be Over, but Why Isn’t the Ridiculous Holiday Defunct?
Oct 16, 2014 Seriously, why do we still celebrate Columbus Day when, as a "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" segment puts it, Christopher Columbus was a "murderous, egomaniac whose most famous discovery was a case of getting lost and refusing to ask for directions"?
Seattle Replaces Columbus Day With Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Oct 7, 2014 Christopher Columbus was a genocidal maniac who is celebrated annually for "discovering" a land that was already inhabited by a people he would go on to enslave, torture and kill.
Christopher Columbus’ Santa Maria Located Near Haiti, Researcher Claims
May 14, 2014 An underwater investigator from the U.S. by the name of Barry Clifford believes that he has spotted the submerged hulk of Christopher Columbus' Santa Maria ship, which sank during the Spanish explorer's notorious voyage to the Caribbean in 1492.
Happy Birthday, Howard Zinn
Aug 24, 2012 The beloved historian, social activist and author of “A People’s History of the United States,” would have turned 90 years old on Friday. "Democracy Now!" remembers Zinn with clips from speeches he gave near the end of his life.
Giant Columbus Statue ‘Discovers’ Puerto Rican Island
Aug 18, 2011 A 20-year-old statue of Christopher Columbus twice the height of the Statue of Liberty may have finally found a home on the shores of an uninhabited Puerto Rican island after first being shunned by several U.S. cities.
