Philly reacts after Indigenous Peoples Day flips back to Columbus Day

Philly reacts after Indigenous Peoples Day flips back to Columbus Day

For more than a century, Columbus Day was a chance for Italian Americans to celebrate their heritage. In 2021, responding to a wave of protests about the murder of George Floyd and criticism that the Italian explorer had caused immeasurable harm to the Western Hemisphere as a murderous colonizer, Mayor Jim Kenney signed an executive order that changed the state holiday to Indigenous Peoples Day. Last month, a Pennsylvania court ruled that Kenney…