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Latinos and african-americans, and it falls in the backdrop with the rittenhouse case. what do you say about it and what are you trying to explore with your new project? >> obviously the verdict of this rittenhouse has devastated so many of us. like there's no justice. somebody can come in with an assault weapon to a peaceful protest and kill people and get away with it is a horrible message in our country. it's written and all hands touched by latin x illustrators and drawers was to bring a lot of attention to a lack of representation, first of all, because we haven't had a latin superhero an...

With the rittenhouse case. what do you say about it and what are you trying to explore with your new project? >> obviously the verdict of this rittenhouse has devastated so many of us. like there's no justice. somebody can come in with an assault weapon to a peaceful protest and kill people and get away with it is a horrible message in our country. it's written and all hands touched by latin x illustrators and drawers was to bring a lot of attention to a lack of representation, first of all, because we haven't had a latin superhero and we've been here since 1492 and been superheroes since then...

Few bother with looking at Columbus' own words for why he set sail looking for a new world.

. national holiday edition, you remember the grade school rhyme in 1492 columbus said the ocean blue. a lot of americans have the day off, thanks to the federal government making columbus day a federal holiday. >> the columbus day parade returned after the pandemic forced it to cancel last year, and italian flags were on display for italian american pride, and in d.c., protesters gathered in lafayette park, calling for columbus day to be changed to indigenous people's day. >> a few states have made it official and on the second monday of october they observe indigenous people's day, either i...

How big of a deal is this proclamation? >> good morning, to you, jose, and happy indigenous people's day. the movement to replace indigenous people's day with the federally recognized holiday columbus day is about three decades long. and it really ramped up around the 500th anniversary of marking columbus' journey, you know, in 1492, the storied tale that we all grew up with in school that, you know, framed columbus as being the quote, first, explorer to reach the americas. but, in fact, what we now know today, which is centered around this movement is, you know, the great detail of misinforma...