BOSTON’S FIRST BLACK MAYOR SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER TO REPLACE COLUMBUS DAY WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY What is today…Columbus Day or indigenous People’s Day? In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed Columbus Day a national holiday, As of today in Boston, it is Indigenous People’s Day. This happened because Boston’s first Black mayor Kim Janey signed […]
The District and surrounding areas have voted to replace Columbus Day for Indigenous People’s Day. Councilmember David Grosso (I-At Large) proposed the emergency legislation last Tuesday to rename the holiday. https://twitter.com/cmdgrosso/status/1181626208028647434 Prince George’s County and Alexandria have both made similar moves to replace the holiday which became a federal day in the 1930s. Columbus Day, […]
Jasmine Sanders reports Minneapolis has renamed Columbus Day! Listen to the latest Jazzy Report in the audio player to hear what the new name is, and why they…
Today marks the 79th time that America has celebrated Christopher Columbus, the Italian explorer credited in many history books with discovering “the new world,” when…
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