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This Week in People’s History, Apr 22–28, 2026

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Mushroom cloud rising from Yucca Flats on April 22, 1952
Duck and Cover (1952), Long Fight for School Integration (1951), U.S. Out of Vietnam! (1971), Springsteen Channels Seeger (2006), Take Your Blacklist and Shove It! (1951), Building US Prison Camps (1951), No Job’s Worth Dying For (1971)

The Worst Justice Ever

Robert Reich Robert Reich Substack
Clarence Thomas's attack on progressivism last week was the last straw

Promoting Well-Being With Healthy Community Stores

Susan Kelley Cornell Chronicle
Since 2018, the Healthy Community Store Initiative (HCSI) has encouraged the owners of local stores to stock healthy options in Buffalo’s food deserts, while educating customers on the benefits of eating healthful foods, checking one’s blood pressur

Healing Iran’s Wounds

Ali Abdi Socialist Project
In these days of war, when Red Crescent workers pull someone from beneath the rubble, they do not ask that person’s political or religious beliefs. Their service is universal, directed toward the preservation of all Iranian lives.

Mexico Is Going All In for Universal Health Care

Kurt Hackbarth Jacobin
Mexico’s new national health system aims to provide universal care. At a moment when US taxpayer dollars are being harnessed to destroy health care infrastructure abroad, Mexico is attempting to make a constitutional right to care into a reality