#VotethatJawn

Letting 18-year-olds Drive Us to the Future: Confessions of Old, Some of Us, Like, Seriously Old, Youth-Vote Advocates

VoteThatJawn

Nov 123 min read

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.

18 views0 comments

VoteThatJawn

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.

5 views0 comments

VoteThatJawn

Nov 14 min read

2024 Trend That Jawn

Eight University of Pennsylvania students who attended Trend that Jawn offered their reflections from the evening.

21 views2 comments

Youth Voting Initiative Hosts #TrendThatJawn, Youth Vote Press Conference at City Hall

VoteThatJawn

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!

16 views0 comments

We Need Black Teachers! Here’s a Pipeline

VoteThatJawn

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.

131 views0 comments

How Freedom Schools Made It to Philadelphia

VoteThatJawn

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...

25 views0 comments

Freedom Summer 60 Years Later: Lessons from ‘The Other Philadelphia’

VoteThatJawn

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.

21 views0 comments

The Freedom Summer: When Students Rose Up and Changed the World

VoteThatJawn

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.

19 views0 comments

Freedom Summer 60 Years Later: Chapter 3 – Healing

VoteThatJawn

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.

6 views0 comments

Freedom Summer 60 Years Later: Chapter 2 – Danger

VoteThatJawn

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

10 views0 comments

Freedom Summer 60 Years Later: Chapter 1 – Orientation

VoteThatJawn

Aug 75 min read

Freedom Summer 60 Years Later: Chapter 1 – Orientation

Freedom Summer volunteers had an orientation; here’s yours.

10 views0 comments

VoteThatJawn

Jul 243 min read

Voting Against Memory

There were many times I wasn’t allowed to leave the house because of demonstrations happening downtown.

34 views0 comments

How School Might Help Prepare Youth for Real Life

VoteThatJawn

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...

6 views0 comments

Tune In, Turn Up, Turn Out: Coercing Your Friends to the Polls

VoteThatJawn

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!

32 views0 comments

VoteThatJawn

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.

64 views0 comments

VoteThatJawn

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...

127 views0 comments

VoteThatJawn

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.

39 views0 comments

VoteThatJawn

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,...

46 views0 comments

VoteThatJawn

Apr 26, 20223 min read

Map That Jawn - The Full Story

So, what were you doing during history class? We’re here to teach you about redistricting, gerrymandering 101, and the power of your vote.

72 views0 comments

VoteThatJawn

Apr 26, 20224 min read

How YOU Can #VoteThatJawn

So how can you help? How can we ensure that the now-fair Pennsylvania maps stay fair? Easy: you #VoteThatJawn. Everything that has happened

43 views0 comments

VoteThatJawn

Feb 13, 20222 min read

PUSHING P WITH HS VOTER REGISTRATION

YOU’RE NOT REGISTERED TO VOTE? — THAT’S NOT P. By Tiara Risby Voting is more than a wave in the same way Gunna says “Pushing P” is more...

30 views0 comments

VoteThatJawn

Jan 17, 20214 min read

My Whiplash Year

2020 has been a year of firsts for me. My first (legal) drink, first pandemic, first apartment, first presidential election, first Zoom...

91 views0 comments

VoteThatJawn

Jan 17, 20213 min read

What I Learned on Election Day

When I stepped out of my house on Beyer Avenue on November 3rd, I took small sips of my coffee, believing I would have time to finish...

144 views0 comments

VoteThatJawn

Dec 20, 20204 min read

Let's Say Black Lives Mattered

Someone has slit in half the 30-foot-long Black Lives Matter banner outside our St. Luke and the Epiphany. For the second time.

17 views0 comments