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Author Talk: Hope and Struggle in the Policed City

Sat, May 17, 2025 3:00 P.M. Add to your calendar
Falls of Schuylkill Library
Cost: FREE

Join us for an author talk with Menika Dirkson, author of Hope and Struggle in the Policed City. Menika Dirkson is a Philadelphia native and an Assistant Professor of African American History at Morgan State University. She received her PhD in History from Temple University. Her research focuses on police-Black community relations in Philadelphia following the Civil Rights Era.  She is currently researching race, policing, and graffiti surounding the public transportation system in post-1958 Philadelphia. She lives in Germantown and regularly volunteers with the Friends of Joseph E. Coleman Library.

This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Falls of Schuylkill Library, enter on Midvale Avenue.

 

The views expressed by the authors and moderators are strictly their own and do not represent the opinions of the Free Library of Philadelphia or its employees.
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Falls of Schuylkill Library
3501 Midvale Avenue (Warden Dr. & Midvale Ave.)
Philadelphia, PA 19129-1633
215-685-2093

Upcoming Events at Falls of Schuylkill Library

Saturday, May 17, 2025
10:30 A.M.
Sit and Stitch
3:00 P.M.
Author Talk: Hope and Struggle in the Policed City
Monday, May 19, 2025
5:30 P.M.
Falls Book Club
Saturday, May 24, 2025
2:00 P.M.
“Mommy’s Khimar” Presented by the Enchantment Theatre Company
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
1:00 P.M.
Stop the Bleed Training

Upcoming Author Events Events

Saturday, May 17, 2025
3:00 P.M.
Author Talk: Hope and Struggle in the Policed City | Falls of Schuylkill Library
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
6:00 P.M.
Always Enough: A Global Food Memoir | Booktalk & Tasting Event | Parkway Central Library
7:00 P.M.
Jens Ludwig | Unforgiving Places | Parkway Central Library
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
6:30 P.M.
From Manila to Wall Street: An Immigrant's Journey with America's First Black Tycoon | Butch Meily | Parkway Central Library
Thursday, May 22, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Jonathan Capehart | Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man's Search for Home | Parkway Central Library
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