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How Indigenous Peoples’ Day is Supplanting Columbus Day

Whole Whale

He “found” the Bahamas. Roosevelt made Columbus Day a national holiday. 1946: The United Nations Charter is signed, without any mention of indigenous peoples. 1992: Five hundred years after Columbus’ voyage, the United Nations General Assembly adopts the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People.

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2022

TechCrunch

While the debacle paled in comparison to what would come later in the year when it came to overly confident leaders (ahem, see below), it was perhaps one of the earliest signs that all was not as rosy as it appeared in fintech land. By December 12, Bankman-Fried had been arrested in the Bahamas. The next day, the U.S.

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