by John Mancini | Feb 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
Recent polls among Republican voters are finding that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is a serious contender against Donald Trump for 2024. DeSantis hasn’t officially entered that race but even the left-leaning media envisions his entry. The Florida governor has...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Feb 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
The recent Grammy Awards inspired this blog, the title of which is a spin on a famous song by the 1960s folk group the Kingston Trio: Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Once upon a time, Italian Americans gobbled up Grammys like Pac Man, and in every conceivable...
by John Mancini | Feb 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
One of our duties at the Institute is to monitor the media – how the Italian heritage is perceived and broadcast across the nation. The Learning Channel (TLC) has a popular series called My 600-lb Life, about morbidly obese Americans who decide to avert early death by...
by John Mancini | Jan 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) recent showed the 1962 Italian film The Four Days of Naples, the true story of the Neapolitan uprising against German occupation in 1943. I had seen it as a teenager at a Brooklyn theater when it first came out. It was one of the...
by John Mancini | Jan 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
I came across an interesting statistic last week on blood donations. Of the 400,000 donors last year 78% were White, 16% Black, 2% Hispanic, and 2% Asian. Whites and Blacks contributed more than their census populations would suggest: Whites are 60% of the...
by Rosario Iaconis | Jan 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
…and Benito Mussolini Is Still Dead Mirabile dictu: Prime Minister Meloni’s center-right coalition is holding — thus far. The Italian parliament’s approval of Ms. Meloni’s annual budget without any political turbulence is the latest signal that she is governing...
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