Word: vigil
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About 30 people listened to readings, prayers and songs at a quiet vigil promoting alternate interpretations of Columbus Day yesterday evening...
Native Americans at Harvard-Radcliffe (NAHR) organized a candlelight vigil outside Memorial to remember the people whose lives were lost as a result of Columbus' landing and the colonization and conquest that followed...
This was the first year the event has featured a vigil, which Branch said communicated the essence and promoted awareness of the story of Columbus...
...opening address, Rodman emphasized that the vigil was not in opposition to Columbus as a man or Columbus Day as a holiday, but was an opportunity to express different cultural views...
...broaden the reach of the vigil, the organizers incorporated other groups who were affected by the events Christopher Columbus set in motion...