President Joe Biden is the first U.S. president to formally recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day, and many on Twitter are joined in a virtual celebration.
Activist groups last year were preparing for a "We're going to knock it down" protest on October 12, which would've coincided with the day Columbus arrived in the Americas in 1492.
The Big Apple is starting to get woke. New York City public schools will be celebrating Juneteenth as an official holiday on their academic calendar.
The nationally-recognized federal holiday notes when Italian explorer Christopher Columbus arrived in America on October 12, 1492.
It's a reckoning against problematic racist symbols, and that doesn't just mean Confederate statues. Protesters in Richmond toppled a statue of Christopher Columbus and tossed it into a lake, while another was beheaded in Boston.
It’s that time of the year when (some) Americans celebrate the legacy of a man who was responsible for the enslavement and genocide of countless indigenous natives wherever he traveled, Christopher Columbus.
A statue of Christopher Columbus in Yonkers was found beheaded.
