Mike Klonsky's Blog

Graffiti at Howard University criticizing its president for meeting with Trump. It only makes sense that a day after gutting health insu...

You can't always get what you want. But you get what you need. -- Jagger/Richards There's lots of lessons to be drawn from thi...

"The vast majority of aldermen oppose the opening of new charters this year, while we face a massive budget crisis and no path to ade...

Strike over. Struggle continues. Aisha Wade-Bey “We do have some other ways to continue to make sure we get this high school in our ...

This afternoon, I was with members of Chicago's Jewish community, who marched to City Hall to voice support for the Dyett Hunger str...

Seattle teachers strike enters its second week. Gary Younge I delivered the Bernie Grant Memorial Lecture in London on Thursday on Bla...

Thanks to Kenyon super Prof. Peter Rutkoff for inviting us to come engage with students at Kenyon College yesterday. Undergrads we met, i...

Labor Day at Dyett... We gathered in support of the hunger strikers, now in the 23rd day of their strike. We heard Jitu Brown 's prog...

Kim Mead, president of the Washington Education Association  "Instead of diverting taxpayer dollars to unaccountable charter schoo...

Dyett hunger strikers meet this afternoon. Decide to continue the strike.  "We need to unpack this," said Jitu Brown of the K...

Dyett hunger striker April Stogner speaks in front of Education Department in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. To her right is Jitu Brown ...

Last night's vigil.  LAST NIGHT was that rare combination of a dazzling summer Chicago nights on Michigan Ave. and being in the be...

Rahm finally meets with Dyett hunger strikers. But makes no commitments. Strike continues into Day 16.  The Sun-Times  reporter Stefa...

C L E RG Y   TO   AP P E AL   T O MAYOR   E MANUEL   T O   E N D   TO   THE  D YE T T   HU N GER   ST R IKE   NOW IN 14 th   D AY ...