Mike Klonsky's Blog

Columnist Laura Washington "My message to Chicago Ald. Jim Gardiner: You are mired in a bottomless pit of misogyny." -- Sun-Times...

Oklahoma City Thunder players kneel during anthem despite a threat from GOP state lawmaker   Nikole Hannah-Jones on Bill Clinton...

"President Trump and several staff members stood backstage and gazed at the empty Bank of Oklahoma Center in horror." -- Maggie ...

Trump's gun thugs storm MI legislature. He calls them, "very good people." Brittany Packnett, activist, educator “The...

James Baldwin Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want t...

Stevie Wonder closes out Aretha's funeral.  Rev. William Barber Aretha's singing challenged the dangling discords of hate and ...

Harold died 30 years ago.  To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men. --  Ella Wheeler Wilcox ("Prote...

NAACP 2017 The racist character of the current White House (aptly named for its lack of black faces) became even more apparent when Trum...

“President Obama tried to move us forward with health-care coverage by using a conservative model that came from one of the conservative t...

Organizers estimated between 50,000-80,000 participated in the Equality March on Sunday. (Washington Blade photo by Michael Key) Rev. Wi...

"In this season, when some want to harden and stop the heart of our democracy, we are being called like our foremothers and fathers ...

Pres. Barack Obama on Trump “In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue,” Obama said. “It’s not cool to not know that you’re t...