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This Week in People’s History, May 20–26, 2026

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Freedom Riders bus aflame after having been firebombed near Anniston, Alabama
JFK’s Profile in Cowardice (1961), Marvin Gaye’s Greatest Hit (1971), George Washington, Frustrated Enslaver (1796), Can’t Repeal an Anti-Racist Law? Then Just Try to Forget About It. (1951) Blacklist Victim Lives to Laugh at Witchhunters (1956)

We Need To Move Beyond Robot Doomerism

David Moscrop Jacobin
“The robots are coming” needn't be understood as heralding the apocalypse. An automated society in which states and worker-owned enterprises use technology to serve public ends while meeting individual needs is entirely consistent with the good life.

The Woman Who Hid 600 Recipes From SS Officers

Eva Moreimi Jewish Food Society
In the memoir, "Hidden Recipes," Eva Moreimi recounts how her mother, Ilona Kellner, while a prisoner at Buchanwald, collected more than 600 recipes, which she hid from the guards in a small pouch in her coat.

The Dismantling of Black Studies

Jafari Sinclaire Allen The Nation
Everyone committed to democracy, intellectual freedom, and the rule of law should be alarmed at what is happening—and prepared to act.