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  • Life & People

    Geraldine Ferraro, One Year After Her Departure

    Diana Del Monte(April 12, 2012)
    Aileen Riotto Sirey, Founder and Chair of NOIAW, meets i-Italy to share her memories of her best friend Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman be a candidate for Vice-Presidency of the United States, as well as the only Italian-American to run for such a high office. A role model for Italian-American women, Ferraro died on March 26, 2011 after twelve years from being diagnosed with multiple myeloma.
  • Op-Eds

    An Italian-American Antidote to Fascism on Both Sides of the Atlantic

    Cristogianni Borsella(September 07, 2009)
    Followers of Mussolini still exist in both Italy and the U.S., and some of them are Italian Americans. I am left to ask: Which path will Italian-American youth follow in the years ahead? We need a call to resurrect the legacies of those Italian-American labor leaders and politicians of the past--hardworking immigrants and their offspring who frequently clashed in the streets with the fascisti. Coming from one of the earth's most abused ethnic and class backgrounds, they were deeply entrenched in their own immigrant community, but also in the communities of other oppressed Americans. They understood that an affront to one group's rights was an unacceptable affront to all.