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The city’s Columbus Day Parade, the largest parade held in NYC since the beginning of the pandemic, returned to the streets Monday after a one-ear absence, NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports.

The first major parade back in New York City in almost two years was ripe with politicians. NBC New York’s Melissa Russo reports.

The annual Columbus Day Parade returned to New York City on Monday after being canceled last year because of the coronavirus pandemic. Marching bands and floats traveled up Fifth Avenue as spectators waved green, white and red Italian flags. Organizers said 35,000 marchers took part in the parade and tens of thousands more watched. Billed as the nation’s largest celebration…

The annual New York City Columbus Day Parade, touted as the largest Columbus Day celebration, returns after a one-year, in-person absence attributed to the coronavirus pandemic. Gaby Acevedo reports.

Monday’s federal holiday dedicated to Christopher Columbus is highlighting the ongoing divide between those who view the explorer as a representative of Italian Americans’ history and those horrified by an annual tribute that ignores the native people whose lives and culture were forever changed by colonialism.

President Joe Biden has issued the first-ever presidential proclamation of Indigenous Peoples’ Day

It began with just removing Columbus Day from the school calendar and changing it to Indigenous People Day, but parents weren’t happy so the Randolph School Board got rid of all holidays. They reversed their decision on Monday. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

The Randolph School District in New Jersey decided to no longer designate school holidays by name, including Columbus Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Some think the district went too far.

The fight over removing Columbus Day in NYC schools continues as Italian American leaders demand to restore the name.

After doing away with snow days, NYC public schools made another change that has upset some people: Columbus Day will now be called Italian heritage Day as well as Indigenous People’s Day. NBC New York’s John Chandler reports.

From erasing snow days, to renaming Columbus Day, the city’s Department of Education calendar changes have managed to upset some people, including the city and state’s top officials, who are from Italian-American families. Columbus Day and snow days will never be the same in city schools. Snow days will turn into remote school days. Parents first noticed the change...

25 states have introduced bills calling for more personal finance education in schools. In some districts, even kindergarteners are learning early lessons about the basics of saving, spending and debt. Sharon Epperson, senior CNBC personal finance correspondent, talks with LX News about students across the country who called for more real-life financial guidance.

As the mythology around Christopher Columbus has been corrected, many are pushing to replace Columbus Day with a celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. A cultural strategist and diversity expert, Lauren Wesley Wilson, joined LX News to discuss the importance of recognizing the oppressed rather than celebrating their oppressors.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will mark Columbus Day by dedicating a statue of the Italian-American saint known as Mother Cabrini in lower Manhattan.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo marked Columbus Day by unveiling a statue of the Italian-American saint known as Mother Cabrini in lower Manhattan. The dedication of the statue on Monday comes a year after Cuomo announced that the state would commission a monument to the Roman Catholic nun who was canonized in 1946. That decision came after a commission led…

The parade will not be held for the first time since 1983, but the group that organizes it is planning a virtual celebration of Italian-American culture

Gov. Andrew Cuomo left radio listeners stunned after he dropped the n-word during an on-air conversation that started with Medicaid and shifted to discrimination against Italian-Americans.

Strong winds plagued the tri-state area through much of the day Thursday, leaving thousands in the dark a day after a bomb cyclone dumped heavy rain and brought down trees, as well as a building, across the region.

“Columbus enslaved, colonized, mutilated, and massacred thousands of Indigenous People in the Americas,” Council Member David Grosso said in a statement.

Another round of high tides and continued gusty winds have led to flooding conditions alongs parts of the Jersey Shore Friday afternoon