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This Week in People’s History, Jun 25-Jul 1, 2025

Portside
An integrated group of students, together immediately after their school was desegregated
School Integration in a Small Town (1955), Love Is All You Need (2015), ‘That Flag Just Had to Come Down’ (2015), Liberation Day, (1970), It’s a Police Action, Not a War (1950), Goodnight Irene (1950), Shut Up and Get Out! (1965)

Sunday Science: All Seeing Eye

Daniel Clery Science
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to transform astronomy. Its wide and fast survey will discover billions of dynamic objects while building up a deep map of the universe

The Italian Labor and Citizenship Referenda June 8–9

Salvo Leonardi and Lepoldo Tartaglia The Stansbury Forum
Despite the defeat of pro-worker referenda, bringing workers’ rights and dignity back to the top of the list in the public discourse, in a time saddened by wars and epochal challenges, can be considered a positive.

A Diaspora at a Crossroads

Ankur Singh The Progressive
At two events in the suburbs of Chicago this spring, members of the Indian diaspora responded to the rise of ethnonationalism in very different ways.