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John Mancini – Founder and Executive Director
Taken for Granted
There have been 25 Medal of Honor winners with Italian roots. The most recent one is David Bellavia of Buffalo, NY. He’s been honored at the White House by President Trump and by the Gary Sinise Foundation, a nonprofit for ...
Bill Dal Cerro, Senior Analyst
BUON COMPLEANNO, FRANK SERPICO
I was reminded that April 14th was the 90th birthday of Frank Serpico, the heroic NY cop who fought racism and corruption in the late 1960s. (Note: If you go to the Almanac icon on our website and click on ...
Rosario A. Iaconis, Senior Analyst
What Ken Burns Left Out
Contrary to Ken Burns’ recent documentary on the American Revolution, it was a band of Italians, the ancient Romans—not the Iroquois—who served as the model for our fledgling republic. Those are Roman fasces mounted in the U.S. House of Representatives ...
