by John Mancini | May 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
I’m about as “down home” as any professing Italian American. I was born in Brooklyn and the first in the family to go to college. My Mezzogiorno pedigree is mutt-worthy. But for the life of me I’m still stumped by the low-class mentality that still...
by John Mancini | May 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
Leo XIV, an all-Latin combo It only took four ballots to elect the first American pope. As proud as we are for that achievement, we should acknowledge that Robert (“Bob”) Prevost also has an all-Latin pedigree. His maternal side is ‘white’ Hispanic (Martinez) of...
by John Mancini | May 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
The good news is President Trump has announced that the Federal government will no longer conflate Indigenous Peoples Day with Columbus Day. The great visionary who joined two worlds in 1492 will be restored to his noble station in Federal observance. The bad news is...
by John Mancini | Apr 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Back in the 1980s when I began to get active in Italian American affairs, I wrote a letter to Newsday, the regional newspaper of Long Island, critiquing an op-ed on Italian history. A few days later my letter was published. Shortly after, I received a...
by John Mancini | Apr 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
In the course of my self-studies one statement by historian Will Durant (Caesar and Christ) stands out. “More Christians were killed by other Christians than by the Romans.” He was referring to the systematic purge of ‘heretics’ who did not accept the...
by John Mancini | Apr 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
On schedule, ABC-TV broadcast The Ten Commandments on Saturday night for Passover. I recall seeing it for the first time in 1956 at the Loews Valencia in Jamaica, Queens (NYC). Quite a visual impact for a 9-year-old kid. Even more amazing was that I went without...
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