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"When schools close, students don’t disappear. The only question is whether the rest of us will act like we understand that," says the head of one independent school.
Today is Transit Equity Day, in honor of civil rights leader Rosa Parks. Learn about this holiday and more ways you can stay civically engaged this Black History Month.
Atlanta has proven that a walkable, modern, mixed-use city is not only possible, but highly desirable. Here's what Philly's Market East could learn from the southern city.
Philly's own marketing guru and soul food chef knows athletes' styles. Take a trip through his look-book, featuring Allen Iverson, Jason Kelce and Connor Barwin.
Mayor Parker's H.O.M.E. plan is Philly's most ambitious housing investment in decades. A civic infrastructure consultant urges accountability for our city's housing system health.
This week in Philly our theaters are packed with new productions, it's NoLibs Restaurant Week, the Philadelphia Auto Show rolls on, Jeannine Cook is at Wilder for her debut novel, and I hear there's a big football game on Sunday.
After the January 6 attack, a former engineer at Facebook was concerned about social media's role in political violence. She started FSH Technologies, and local governments are utilizing it to better serve their constituents.
Though last year Philly reached a record-breaking decline in gun violence, the fight isn't over yet. We must support our local community organizations amid funding freezes.
Former mayors Kasim Reed of Atlanta and Michael Nutter of Philadelphia welcome Allentown’s punk rock leader @matt-tuerk.bsky.social to the latest episode of the podcast.
Violence against immigrants and their supporters has come to our neighborhoods. Two young Welcoming Center workers have found hope in the next generation of Americans.
Philly writer Lorene Cary helped tell the story of the people George Washington enslaved in his home. A fellow social justice activist decries the Trump-directed erasure of her work — and the facts.
The upside of China’s energy downfall, street battle in Minnesota, millennials off the internet, and a Philadelphian we effing loved and more smart stories that explain what happened this week.
@ms.now host and Citizen board member @velshi.com sits down with historian Jon Meacham for an analysis of activism and state violence in this moment in American history.
Tune in 11:30AM to Action News 6abc for a very Citizen-y Inside Story featuring Citizen Media Group President/CEO Larry Platt. Check it out here: 6abc.com/watch/live/
Amid an endless stream of abuses of power and strains on U.S. democracy, Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center has failed to step up. Where is the voice of the Constitution — or its framers?
This winter, the millions of viewers of RuPaul’s Drag Race learned what hundreds of Philadelphians living with HIV already knew: Philly’s rising star is a queen for the people.
A program that pays people to relocate to Tulsa, Oklahoma has grown the city’s population and quadrupled its investment. Is this an idea Philly should steal?
Entrepreneur and pro dancer Paige DeAngelo knows the importance of good mascara — and she’s eyeing big growth for her sustainable makeup brand this year.
The new chair of CDC's vaccine advisory committee's recent remarks elevate personal freedom over public health, a stance CHOP immunologist @pauloffit.bsky.social describes as both scientifically unfounded and ethically dangerous.
Though Mandy Mango was eliminated early in RuPaul's Drag Race, she won the hearts of thousands of fans. Not just because of her fierceness on stage, but also her day job as an HIV nurse.
On The Citizen's latest episode of How to Really Run a City, former mayors Kasim Reed of Atlanta and Michael Nutter of Philadelphia welcome Allentown's punk rock mayor, Matthew Tuerk.
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"Sometimes, when finding hope feels impossible, we think of the one thing that keeps us moving forward: our youth," writes two Welcoming Center workers.
If not jobs, and not cheap housing, could the answer to city population growth be something less tangible and also equally hard to find: community and civic connection?
The President's House slavery exhibit has been removed under President Donald Trump's executive order. A social justice advocate decries the erasure of history.
The cosmetics industry produces around 120 billion pieces of plastic packaging each year, and 95 percent of it isn’t recycled. A local entrepreneur and pro dancer has developed a sustainable mascara. Here's how it works.
