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  • Liliana Segre (1938) http://www.memorialeshoah.it/liliana-segre/
    Facts & Stories

    Anti-Hate Motion Passes Amidst Many Abstentions. What Does This Mean for Italy?

    Roberta Cutillo(November 01, 2019)
    Many, from the President of the Republic to the Vatican’s Secretary of State, express dismay at the abstentions from center-right parties on the motion to create an extraordinary commission against hate, racism and anti-semitism proposed by Holocaust survivor and life Senator Liliana Segre.
  • Op-Eds

    Anti-immigrant Violence in Italy Draws UN scrutiny

    Judith Harris(September 11, 2018)
    Ten vicious shootings of migrants and Roma in Italy have left one man dead and a baby at risk of paralysis. For this "huge increase in cases of violence and racism," Italy is under investigation by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights of Man.
  • Art & Culture

    “Blaxploitalian” Screens in SF

    Nicole Campisano(January 30, 2018)
    As February celebrates African-American History Month, Director Fred “Kudjo” Kuwornu will present his documentary, "Blaxploitalian 100 Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema,” at the Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco on February 20th. The documentary uncovers and analyzes the personal struggles African Americans, and actors of African descent face in the film industry.
  • Op-Eds

    Is Italy Turning Racist?

    Judith Harris(May 20, 2015)
    Is Italy showing signs of turning racist? The pressure of migration brings new stresses to a country which has had, until now, a proud history of open-mindedness. Because the avalanche of newcomers is not about to be stopped, to seek a peaceful solution to the role of Libya could help, Laura Boldrini suggests.
  • Op-Eds

    Is Italy Turning Racist?

    Judith Harris(May 20, 2015)
    Is Italy showing signs of turning racist? The pressure of migration brings new stresses to a country which has had, until now, a proud history of open-mindedness. Because the avalanche of newcomers is not about to be stopped, to seek a peaceful solution to the role of Libya could help, Laura Boldrini suggests.
  • Op-Eds

    Proud to be White!

    Donna Chirico(April 29, 2012)
    When did we become the White privileged? When did we leapfrog over our fellow tenement dwellers to a position of lofty self-righteousness? When did we lose sight of our own immigrant heritage of discrimination and exploitation?
  • Op-Eds

    We Didn’t Come Over on the Mayflower!

    Anthony Julian Tamburri(January 27, 2012)
    The ignorance of our history has cast some of our “paesani” into the hinterlands of bigotry and prejudice, and thus led them to their coincidental and shameful consequences of non-acceptance of those who are not like us! I can arrive at no other conclusion as I offer up the three incidents below.
  • Facts & Stories

    Nedo, Andrea and Talia

    Letizia Airos(January 25, 2012)
    On the occasion of the Remembrance Day, i-Italy publishes again this interview released on 27th January 2009. An encounter with journalist Andrea Fiano, member of the Board of Directors of the Primo Levi Center (NYC). He is the son of Nedo Fiano, an Auschwitz survivor, and the father of Talia, an Italian American teenager
  • Op-Eds

    From Bensonhurst to Oslo and Beyond

    Jerry Krase(August 08, 2011)
    Negative, or at least puzzled, reactions to visibly different newcomers is universal. Whether in America, Italy or Norway, learning how to see difference positively as part of all our communities is something devoutly to be wished.

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