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Voice That Jawn
Intergenerational stories of voter participation to inspire your vote Voice That Jawn is a six-part podcast miniseries by #VoteThatJawn...
VoteThatJawn
Nov 29, 20201 min read
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Op-ed: Youth Need to Vote
By Carson Eckhard This article originally appeared in Philly Metro. You can view the original post here. In my Tampa, Florida high school...
VoteThatJawn
Oct 30, 20203 min read
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Op-ed | Vote That Jawn
In January, a handful of young organizers perched in my office in the English Department at the University of Penn planning the 2020...
VoteThatJawn
Oct 25, 20204 min read
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Out of the Mouth of Babes
VoteThatJawn and Fresh Artists tap an army of kiddos to turn out the parent vote.
VoteThatJawn
Oct 25, 20205 min read
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A Program that’s Philly-Bred, Woman-Led — Plus MERCH!!!
What’s your jawn? For Monique*, it’s the underfunding of Philly schools. For Sofia*, it’s the loss of a friend to gun violence...
VoteThatJawn
Oct 16, 20202 min read
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Storm: From Whitman's Election Day to Ours
Philadelphia Youth Poets Laureate and Philadelphia Chamber Music Society respond to Walt Whitman's "Election Day: November 1884" On...
VoteThatJawn
Sep 17, 20201 min read
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Walt Whitman's Election Day Curriculum Guide for Teachers
This guide offers a lesson plan and resources for teaching Whitman's "Election Day: November, 1884."
VoteThatJawn
Sep 9, 202013 min read
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What’s Your Jawn?: A Young Journalist’s Guide to Interview-Based Writing
Learn how to write a blog for VoteThatJawn.com on your voting "jawn" — that issue that ignites a fire in you drives you to the polls.
VoteThatJawn
Aug 30, 20205 min read
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First Lady of Jazz Guitar Recalls her Philly Youth, the Folks who Helped, and Why She #VotesThatJawn
Monnette Sudler never skips a vote. Never will. But as a kid, Sudler says, she wasn’t into politics. For her, it was all music.
VoteThatJawn
May 11, 20203 min read
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#VOTETHATJAWN 2020
Think, for a moment, about the fanfare that comes with life’s milestones: marriage, birth, quinceañera, driving, graduation… and so on.
VoteThatJawn
Apr 18, 20205 min read
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The Pandemic Can’t Stop Us: Youth Vote Initiatives Go Virtual
By Sophie Burkholder The way we vote is about to be turned upside down. Fears of the coronavirus pandemic have prompted fears of...
VoteThatJawn
Apr 14, 20203 min read
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A Talk, a Book, then a Movie Becomes a Movement to Bend the Moral Arc of Justice
“Just Mercy” tells the story of Bryan Stevenson, a criminal justice lawyer who moves to Alabama to represent wrongly convicted...
VoteThatJawn
Apr 6, 20205 min read
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The Escobar Brothers Podcast
By Lorene Cary Special thanks to the Escobar family: three talented young musicians who live with their parents in suburban Philadelphia....
VoteThatJawn
Apr 3, 20201 min read
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You Don’t Always Get What You Want, But . . .
By Lorene Cary I wanted to play trumpet. Blow blow hard! A kid who had asthma, whose breathing sometimes felt like sucking air through a...
VoteThatJawn
Apr 3, 20202 min read
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VoteThatJawn
Mar 25, 20202 min read
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Countdown for Students and Teachers to VTJ
Organize, Strategize, Socialize, Share and Compare! It’s time to Vote That Jawn: How to get YOU and your friends to the polls. It’s...
Syra Ortiz-Blanes
Sep 21, 20184 min read
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You’re 18? This Is Your Chance Join Yara Shahidi and Make America Better for Young People
“Control Congress and you control the country.” That’s a quote from Yara Shahidi. Yara Shahidi stars in the hit TV shows Black-ish and...
Jacob Kind
Aug 23, 20183 min read
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What YOU Can Do: It’s Not as Boring, Confusing and Time-Sucking as You Think!
We often hear about the power of voting, how much it means and what it can do. However, that advice usually spews from the mouths of...
Cyé Jacobs
Aug 23, 20182 min read
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They’re Playing Our Votes Like a Video Game
Let me tell you a secret. You know that game Superhex.io? Here’s what it looks like in case you don’t: In the game, you as a player are a...
James Peterson
Aug 23, 20183 min read
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GIVE ME THE FACTS! THEN, SHOW UP!!!!!!
There’s been a shortage of turnouts at the polls, specifically with young people. But why? The answer is simple. Youth hear that their...
Cyé Jacobs
Aug 23, 20181 min read
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Save the Date: Saturday, 22 Sept 2018
Every year, in addition to our blogsite, SafeKidsStories.com creates a few great events, like two days with iconic children’s illustrator...
Lorene Cary
Aug 23, 20182 min read
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