A group of council members, including Basheer Jones, Joe Jones, Anthony Hairston and Jasmin Santana, along with others are gathering for a rally and press conference in front of City Hall today at 5:45 p.m. to urge the city to switch the Oct. 14 holidays.
If the city decides to change, it would join others across the state.
Oberlin officially instated Indigenous Peoples’ Day in 2017 and Cincinnati did so in 2018. Earlier this year, Sandusky announced plans to no longer recognize Columbus Day, instead allowing the second Tuesday in November, aka Election Day, to serve as a city holiday. Akron as well has gone back and forth on whether the day should be replaced.
Indigenous Peoples’ Day was created to recognize Native Americans’ rich contribution to our country, in place of a holiday that many see as celebrating a brutal past of colonization.
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This article appears in May 1-7, 2019.
Gonna be Indignant Peoples’ day when the news reaches Little Italy.
I hope Columbus, Ohio, gets rid of Columbus Day! We don’t want any city to be full of themselves. Maybe we shouldn’t keep Black History Month either, since we have to get rid of a white holiday, which takes place on one day, instead of 28. We can replace it with Native American Tribes Month in honor of the Cleveland Indians. My WHITE great grandfather helped build the Terminal Tower. He was a Slovenian immigrant. White Europeans built the city of Cleveland, not African Americans, nor Hispanic Americans. You continue to destroy things created by Europeans in this country. Slavery ended over 150 years ago and was illegal in the North. African Americans stole the city of Cleveland from European Americans. You should not be able to cancel Columbus day.
I totally agree with you! This is getting out of hand already! Indigenous Day! Pleeze!