Mobility, race, citizenship and Driving While Black
Steve Macek reviews the PBS documentary Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America and discusses the history of race and mobility in the United States.
Whitewashing the Violence of the Local State
In this entry in our Policing & the Media roundtable, Steve Macek reflects on the long history of police violence in Chicago and the media's complicity with that history.
Framing a Shooting (and a Movement)
In this entry in our Policing and the Media roundtable, Steve Macek explores the backstory of the Laquan McDonald shooting and the different ways that Chicago media outlets covered the story.