Guest: Menika Dirkson. Hope & Struggle in the Policed City

Menika Dirkson, PhD is the  guest on  Big Questions w/ Nigel Ousey.   Menika is the author of Hope & Struggle in the Policed City: Black Criminalization & Resistance in Philadelphia.

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 surrounding the public transportation system in post-1958 Philadelphia. She lives in Germantown and regularly volunteers at the Friends of Joseph E. Coleman Library.