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This week in history: The Summer of Love
July 6, 2017Fifty years ago, as many as 100,000 mostly young people, sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior, converged in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.
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This week in history: Canada becomes a country 150 years ago
June 29, 2017July 1 is Canada Day, formerly known as Dominion Day.
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Beyond Canada 150: A history of struggle and solidarity
June 27, 2017There is a tradition in Canadian history more deserving of commemoration than the capitalist compromise reached 150 years ago: the radical tradition of struggling for social change.
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This week in history: East St. Louis rocked by race riot, 1917
June 26, 2017The East St. Louis riots (or massacres) of May and July 1917 were an outbreak of labor- and race-related violence that caused up to 200 deaths and extensive property damage.
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Jubilant crowds, union members gather at Buffalo’s Juneteenth celebration
June 26, 2017The holiday’s history is a bittersweet one.
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