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Howard Zinn Seen Anew

Paul Buhle Portside
Oversize personalities converge, to introduce or, for most readers, reintroduce subject and author. Howard Zinn. Yet Zinn’s work and life stand against what Trumpians seek to do to US history and today’s hardly-surviving democratic institutions.

Friday Nite Videos | May 22, 2026

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott | Equal Justice Initiative. City of Immigrants | Steve Earle. Our Minds Are Weirder than You Think. Jeffrey Epstein's Ghost | SNL. The Shadow Docket: John Oliver.

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

Portside
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)

Tidbits-May 14- Reader Comments: Voting Rights Still Need Protection; Those Accompanying Trump on His Trip to China; the Art of the Deal – Now Iran; 2026 Future of Care Work Convening – Protecting Care in Times of Disruption – Conference; More…

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Reader Comments: Voting Rights Still Need Protection; Those Accompanying Trump on His Trip to China; The Art of the Deal - Now Iran; 2026 Future of Care Work Convening - Protecting Care in Times of Disruption - Conference; Cartoons and more...

Tidbits-May 7- Reader Comments: Voting Rights Overturned by Trump Administration and Supreme Court; Kamala in ’28?; Haymarket Monuments; Barbara Kopple’s Labor Films; Black Employment Under Trump; a Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Assata Shakur

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Reader Comments: Voting Rights Overturned by Trump Administration and Supreme Court; Kamala in '28?; Haymarket Monuments; Barbara Kopple's Labor Films; Black Employment Under Trump; A Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Assata Shakur;

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Young Communists Grow Older

Paul Buhle CounterPunch
This new book, the first of a projected three-volume history, is "the first by activists who grew up, so to speak, within, around, and just beyond the orbit of the CPUSA," writes reviewer Buhle.

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How Vietnam Inflamed the Civil Rights Movement

Brent Staples The New York Times
In the first years of the war, it was more than coincidental that the frontline fighters were disproportionately Black. Still, the Pentagon was willing to tolerate Black soldiers only inasmuch as they forswore cultural expressions of Blackness.
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