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PragerU Kids came to wider media attention in the United States following the state of Florida's decision to allow PragerU Kids videos to be shown in the state's schools. [2] Much of the content of PragerU Kids has come under scrutiny of media experts and educators, such as videos which downplay the Warsaw Uprising.
Columbus Day celebrates the day Christopher Columbus landed in what would become North America in 1492. In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt marked Oct. 12 as a national holiday. It was moved ...
Columbus on Trial is a film directed by Lourdes Portillo in 1992. The 18-minute film, acted and co-written by the comic trio Culture Clash, acts out a simulated trial that Christopher Columbus is put in as they lived through the 500th anniversary of his discovery.
Monday’s federal holiday dedicated to Christopher Columbus is highlighting the ongoing divide between those who view the explorer as a The post Columbus Day controversy rages on, many want it ...
Official logo of the commemoration. The Columbus Quincentenary (1992) was the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' 1492 arrival in America.Similar to Columbus Day, the annual celebration of Columbus' arrival, the quincentenary was viewed contentiously, as different cultures and peoples had different ways of understanding Columbus' role in history.
Not all Democrats have denounced Columbus Day, which was first designated a national holiday in 1934 to mark explorer Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the Americas in 1492.
Columbus initiated a centuries-old wave of terrorism, murder, genocide, rape, slavery, ecological degradation and capitalist exploitation of labor in the Americas." [64] [65] The monument to Christopher Columbus in New York City's Columbus Circle, whose hands were defaced with red paint on September 12, 2017.
Chaos breaks out among the children at school in response to the cancellation of the day off on Columbus Day, due to an anti-Columbus Day campaign by Randy Marsh. Kyle Broflovski and Stan Marsh confront him with photos documenting how Randy himself has dressed as Columbus many times throughout his life, from his wedding to as recently as 2013.