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Simon Balto

Simon Balto teaches, researches, and writes about African American history in the United States. His first book is Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power.

Free as in Fred

Fred Hampton showed up in the streets of my city last summer. The windows were boarded up throughout downtown Madison, Wisconsin. Most of the businesses had been closed for months by this early June morning, as the coronavirus pandemic had swept into the normally bustling ...