Simon Balto’s Occupied Territory provides a history of race and policing in Chicago over the course of the 20th century. Balto will speak about the book on October 20 at a virtual event hosted on the Facebook page of the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, which awarded him its 2019 National Book Award.
Read moreThe Problem with Policing
In Occupied Territory, Simon Balto digs at the roots of the current turmoil over race and policing