Columbus Day News

I am thinking of the Pledge of Allegiance as the United States of America's most famous political holiday, July the Fourth, comes our way this Saturday.

For decades, Denver could boast the largest Juneteenth festival in the country, an annual commemoration of the day that slaves in Texas finally learned they'd been freed by the Emancipation Proclamation -- celebrated in Five Points, the heart of the city's African-American community.

Sonia Sotomayor is President Obama's nomination to replace Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court.

Christopher Columbus, for raping the Indies and leading a major genocide in their lands, was actually regarded a national hero.

An obsession with political correctness at American universities has rapidly become a national phenomenon in recent years.

Last week, Brown University faculty voted successfully to abolish the holiday formerly known as Columbus Day from its calendar, replacing it with a "Fall Weekend." This stemmed from hundreds of Brown University students petitioning the university to stop observing the holiday citing "Christopher Columbus's violent treatment of Native Americans he ...

In this file photo, a bicyclist rides through the campus of Brown University in Providence, R.I. What's in a name? A lot more than history, apparently.

City Councilor Nicholas Narducci , who represents the Charles neighborhood in the city's northern end, sent a letter of protest to Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons on Wednesday, calling the move an attempt at "revisionist history." Narducci said that in setting out across the Atlantic Ocean, Columbus "contributed greatly" to a better ...

Phillipe and Jorge have words of wisdom for Brown University's idiotic, uber-politically correct faculty members who voted to drop Columbus Day and substitute a "Fall Weekend" at the behest of student group called Native Americans at Brown.

In response to protests from Native American and other students, the prestigious Brown University in the United States has changed the name of the national public holiday Columbus Day to "Fall Weekend" on its academic calendar.

Education , Ethnicity , History , Indigenous , Youth Languages: English Full Category List Excerpt In response to protests from Native American and other students, the prestigious Brown University in the United States has changed the name of the national public holiday Columbus Day to "Fall Weekend" on its academic calendar.

I saw that Brown University students and faculty have voted to end the school's observance of Columbus Day.

Roger Kimball, who wrote the book on tenured radicals, provides this latest in an endless series: In its latest exhibition of anti-Americanism, the faculty at Brown University voted to rename the "Columbus Day" "Fall Weekend." Rather lacking in poetry, "Fall Weekend," but from the perspective of the tenured elite that anodyne moniker has the ...

Providence Mayor David Cicilline released the following statement regarding Brown University's decision to not celebrate Columbus Day.

Brown University is taking the "Columbus Day" out of Columbus Day weekend. The faculty voted at a meeting Tuesday to establish a new academic holiday in October called "Fall Weekend." The long weekend coincides with Columbus Day.

Anyone who has studied history, especially at a mostly liberal institution like Brown, knows that Christopher Columbus did not "discover" the Americas.

As a youngster I learned to loathe Columbus Day. It was not considered a school holiday and I had to suffer the annual taunts of a oethere she goes, the Nina, the Pinta, the Santa Maria!a Oy, it became so ...

Definitely Opinion As it was in 2007 for Jace, being too worn out to rant, so too it is for me, Intransitivus this year in 2008.