Mike Klonsky's Blog

R.I.P. 'CHUY' NEGRETE  --  “He was an educator of the highest extreme,”  James Edward Olmos  said of the Chicago writer of corridos ...

Of course, the neo-confederate GOP leadership is opposed to another probe of their 1/6 attempted coup d'etat. To them, the coup wasn...

Delmarie Cobb on Hitting Left radio in 2017.  Veteran media and political consultant,  Delmarie Cobb  responded, in her recent newsletter , ...

The Biden administration set aside $4 billion to help minority farmers. White farmers, echoing some old-guard Chicago journalists, complain...

As controversial as that was, it's important to note that the policy was for one round of interviews. @chicagosmayor gave a press confe...

CNN anchor, Jim Acosta calls "BS" on Fox "That tale from the border didn't just border on BS, this was USDA Grade-A bulls...

Weaponized gossip. It's designed to undermine the credibility and marginalize the person who is the target. It often has no basis in rea...

Time Magazine There were 3,800 anti-Asian racist incidents, mostly against women, in the past year. A torrent of hate and violence against p...

First and foremost, neither Dr Seuss nor Mr Potato Head are being cancelled.   Akin Olla on Dr. Seuss Real cancel culture has existed in the...

Dr. King is arrested for "loitering" in Montgomery, Alabama, in September 1958. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  The problem of racism...

National Guard Troops sleeping on the floor of the Capitol. Trump isn't sticking around D.C. until the very end . He's hopping on th...

Students at Hawthorne Scholastic Academic on Chicago's North Side picked up supplies to use at home in the waning days of summer vaca...

Trump's federal cops descend on Portland. Chicago is next.  Nearly two dozen lawmakers blasted Fraternal Order of Police President ...

Frederick Douglass on the Lincoln statue  “The negro here, though rising, is still on his knees and nude. What I want to see before I...

Photograph by Peter Stackpole for Life Magazine (1937). Our dad was one of the original real antifas back in '37. This, a far cry ...

Hollywood Blvd.  Mariame Kaba, organizer against criminalization  Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police... here’s an immediate d...

Protesters shut down Klobuchar’s rally in St. Louis Park, Minn., on Sunday. Now it looks like she won't even carry her home state in t...

"Truly nauseating" -- Rep. Ocasio-Cortez So DT got Melania to give racist oinker  Rush Limbaugh the Medal of Freedom, the...