Each day, another 50 or so 17-year-olds in Philadelphia turn 18, and soon it’ll be time to hand them the keys.

Deja Kilgore sits across from me at Philadelphia City Hall, leaning in with a quiet confidence, poised for our conversation.

I spoke with The Philadelphia Citizen’s Executive Editor about her experience editing and writing for The Citizen.

Preventing residents from exercising their constitutional right is unacceptable

The upcoming election carries a lot of weight for Philly, the biggest city in one of the biggest swing states.

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

At their annual event, #VoteThatJawn encourages young people to register and vote!

No one outside of its residents had ever really heard of the small Mississippi town before June 1964. That’s when the stories began.

Today in 2024, we find ourselves at the 60-year anniversary of some of the most influential few months of the Civil Rights Movement.

“Blacks [do] everything. Everything,” Ruby Doris Smith Robinson, declared in awe. And it was true.

It was June 21, 1964 and James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael “Mickey” Schwerner were setting out for Philadelphia, Mississippi

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

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

By Cassidy Whaley Over the years I've come to realize a striking truth: in school, students often spend as much time questioning the...