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

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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.

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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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Championing Change: Inside the Philadelphia Citizen with Executive Editor Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

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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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Democracy in Danger: The Battle for Your Ballot

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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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Students: Turn Your Emotions Into Action!

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

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

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

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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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Freedom Summer 60 Years Later: Chapter 3 – Healing

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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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Freedom Summer 60 Years Later: Chapter 2 – Danger

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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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Freedom Summer 60 Years Later: Chapter 1 – Orientation

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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 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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How School Might Help Prepare Youth for Real Life

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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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