Italy’s first black cabinet minister Cécile Kyenge continues to be the target of right-wing politicians who have reportedly thrown bananas at her, hurled racist taunts and even implied sexual violence ...

ROME — Calls mounted Monday for the Senate vice president to resign after he compared Italy's first black Cabinet minister to an orangutan, with the Italian premier lamenting that the country had been ...

ROME — Italy's first black Cabinet minister, targeted by racist slurs after her appointment last week, said Friday that Italians aren't racist but that some are merely ignorant of other cultures and ...

Two months after the February 2013 Italian general election, Prime Minister Enrico Letta, selected by the President Giorgio Napolitano to create a consensus government, revealed the members of his ...

Calling a black person an “orangutan” in Italy is not racist, the country’s senators have decided. The decision came after Italy’s former integration minister, Cecile Kyenge, who was born in Congo, ...