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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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.
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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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VoteThatJawn
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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Feb 5, 20222 min read
Democracy: Where Teens Can Set the Trend
By Samantha Delman My father has affectionately compared my phone to Tony Stark's Arc Reactor - the heart that keeps Iron Man alive - as...
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