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The Philly Download is celebrating its first-ever print publication with a conversation on election exhaustion, civic expression in turbulent times and Black Philadelphia history.

Join us for a conversation between Linn Washington and Menika Dirkson. 

Linn Washington Jr. is a professor of journalism at Temple University in Philadelphia. Washington also works as a journalist who specializes in investigative news coverage and analytical commentary. Washington’s reporting and research examines issues involving race-based inequities in the criminal justice system and the news media plus matters related to social justice.

Menika B. Dirkson is an Associate Professor of African American History at Morgan State University. She is the author of the 2024 book, Hope and Struggle in the Policed City: Black Criminalization and Resistance in Philadelphia.Dirkson is currently researching race, crime, graffiti, and policing surrounding the public transportation system in post-1958 Philadelphia.

Moderated by Cassie Owens from the Philly Download.