The other day, while looking up different ideas for how to prepare some different Christmas meals, I started to see many recipes for The Feast of the Seven Fishes.  This got me to thinking: why is this such a prevalent item on Google when I, as a first generation Italian-American,...

Despite my having been declared "Jeopardy!" Champion, these people on social media felt no hesitation to besmirch me in such an ethnically specific manner…this would never happen to any other ethnicity without consequence...Yet slurring an Italian-American without any fear of repercussions, especially in the age of Cancel Culture, is still...

It is not an exaggeration to suggest that one of the linguistic tyrannies prevailing today in this age of political correctness, tolerance and multiculturalism, is the use and abuse of the N-word. The word has penetrated every aspect of public discourse and has taken a prominent place in American popular...

You can make film after film and T.V. show after T.V. show focusing on every negative stereotype and caricature of Italian-Americans with impunity, and you can continue to ignore the great contributions Italian Americans have made to our society, as when Chirlaine McCray de Blasio ignored the results of a...

I’ve been Italian American my whole life; I’ve felt insulted when called a guinea, when called a wop, and when called a dago, but I’ve never been called Fredo, nor would I be terribly irked if someone called me that.

The word “racist” has lost all meaning and power in the last decade; the word is thrown around so frivolously as to devalue it completely; if everything is racist then nothing is. And what is the benefit of even asking the question?

You can’t assimilate without abandoning your heritage, and you can’t embrace your heritage the way the old-timers would like without appearing as an outsider.  The challenge is finding a happy medium between the two...  I once asked my Grandmother why she never went back to visit Italy; she said: “For...