Today is Indigenous Peoples Day. Across the country, a growing number of cities and states are recognizing this day in place of the traditional Columbus Day. This change reflects the growing awareness that holidays like Columbus Day are used to rewrite the past and uphold institutions of white supremacy, racism and settler colonialism. As Justin […]
UPPER PENINSULA, MICHIGAN — (Opinion) “There is no doubt this is the most horrible crime ever committed in the whole history of the world,” wrote Winston Churchill while reading the first detailed account of the Auschwitz concentration camps, according to an account about Churchill published on the BBC website’s history page.
These eight cities (including three just last week) replaced the Columbus Day “holiday” with one long overdue: Indigenous Peoples Day.The post 8 Cities That Have Replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day appeared first on The Anti-Media.
