Letting 18-year-olds Drive Us to the Future: Confessions of Old, Some of Us, Like, Seriously Old, Youth-Vote Advocates
Each day, another 50 or so 17-year-olds in Philadelphia turn 18, and soon it’ll be time to hand them the keys.
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Nov 124 min read
Deja Kilgore – Vote That Jawn!
Deja Kilgore sits across from me at Philadelphia City Hall, leaning in with a quiet confidence, poised for our conversation.
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Nov 123 min read
Championing Change: Inside the Philadelphia Citizen with Executive Editor Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
I spoke with The Philadelphia Citizen’s Executive Editor about her experience editing and writing for The Citizen.
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Nov 123 min read
Democracy in Danger: The Battle for Your Ballot
Preventing residents from exercising their constitutional right is unacceptable
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Nov 123 min read
Philadelphia College Students Are Mobilizing To Get Out The Youth Vote
At the Vote That Jawn press conference, student leaders from across Philadelphia and city officials reminded voters that their voice matters
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Nov 43 min read
Students: Turn Your Emotions Into Action!
The upcoming election carries a lot of weight for Philly, the biggest city in one of the biggest swing states.
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Nov 14 min read
2024 Trend That Jawn
Eight University of Pennsylvania students who attended Trend that Jawn offered their reflections from the evening.
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Oct 23 min read
Youth Voting Initiative Hosts #TrendThatJawn, Youth Vote Press Conference at City Hall
At their annual event, #VoteThatJawn encourages young people to register and vote!
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Aug 93 min read
We Need Black Teachers! Here’s a Pipeline
Today, we’ll dive into the ongoing legacy of Philadelphia, part of a long line of efforts to liberate people from oppression.
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Aug 94 min read
How Freedom Schools Made It to Philadelphia
By Rae Norman Imagine a school that teaches “young people to function productively and meaningfully in society, or [gives] them the tools...
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Aug 72 min read
Freedom Summer 60 Years Later: Lessons from ‘The Other Philadelphia’
No one outside of its residents had ever really heard of the small Mississippi town before June 1964. That’s when the stories began.
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Aug 74 min read
The Freedom Summer: When Students Rose Up and Changed the World
Today in 2024, we find ourselves at the 60-year anniversary of some of the most influential few months of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Aug 73 min read
Freedom Summer 60 Years Later: Chapter 3 – Healing
“Blacks [do] everything. Everything,” Ruby Doris Smith Robinson, declared in awe. And it was true.
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Aug 72 min read
Freedom Summer 60 Years Later: Chapter 2 – Danger
It was June 21, 1964 and James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael “Mickey” Schwerner were setting out for Philadelphia, Mississippi
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Aug 75 min read
Freedom Summer 60 Years Later: Chapter 1 – Orientation
Freedom Summer volunteers had an orientation; here’s yours.
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Jul 302 min read
So, what's really going on?
We woke up to a new world. But no worries, we’ve got this
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Jul 243 min read
Voting Against Memory
There were many times I wasn’t allowed to leave the house because of demonstrations happening downtown.
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Jul 244 min read
How School Might Help Prepare Youth for Real Life
By Cassidy Whaley Over the years I've come to realize a striking truth: in school, students often spend as much time questioning the...
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Jul 242 min read
How Many Beatings Have YOU Taken, Congressman?
By Hannah Chang This blog is not a rallying cry to go out and vote. It’s trying to think about the vote. What makes it so great? Well,...
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Jun 292 min read
Tune In, Turn Up, Turn Out: Coercing Your Friends to the Polls
Isabel Engel provides ways to get your friends out and to the polls during election season!
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Apr 4, 20233 min read
Committee of Seventy joins forces with youth voter education organization, Vote That Jawn
The partnership unifies two leaders in civic participation and expands C70’s existing mission to connect with youth and first-time voters.
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Nov 14, 20224 min read
Sheyla Street: Getting in the Fight
By Tina Smith-Brown Philadelphia is a tough place for politics. Registering voters is far from easy here, but West Point cadet, Sheyla...
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Nov 14, 20222 min read
City Hall’s #TrendThatJawn
Youth voting is trending all over America; it only made sense to create an event that would highlight and support these efforts.
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Oct 12, 20222 min read
Party with a Purpose: Trend That Jawn!
Vote That Jawn Hosts Social Event Celebrating Philly Youth Vote, Oct. 26, 6-7 pm Vote That Jawn, a nonpartisan group of youth, educators,...
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