A Program that’s Philly-Bred, Woman-Led — Plus MERCH!!!
What’s your jawn? For Monique*, it’s the underfunding of Philly schools. For Sofia*, it’s the loss of a friend to gun violence...
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VoteThatJawn
- Sep 17, 2020
- 1 min
Storm: From Whitman's Election Day to Ours
Philadelphia Youth Poets Laureate and Philadelphia Chamber Music Society respond to Walt Whitman's "Election Day: November 1884" On...
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VoteThatJawn
- Sep 9, 2020
- 13 min
Walt Whitman's Election Day Curriculum Guide for Teachers
This guide offers a lesson plan and resources for teaching Whitman's "Election Day: November, 1884."
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VoteThatJawn
- Aug 30, 2020
- 5 min
What’s Your Jawn?: A Young Journalist’s Guide to Interview-Based Writing
Learn how to write a blog for VoteThatJawn.com on your voting "jawn" — that issue that ignites a fire in you drives you to the polls.
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VoteThatJawn
- May 11, 2020
- 3 min
First Lady of Jazz Guitar Recalls her Philly Youth, the Folks who Helped, and Why She #VotesThatJawn
Monnette Sudler never skips a vote. Never will. But as a kid, Sudler says, she wasn’t into politics. For her, it was all music.
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VoteThatJawn
- Apr 18, 2020
- 5 min
#VOTETHATJAWN 2020
Think, for a moment, about the fanfare that comes with life’s milestones: marriage, birth, quinceañera, driving, graduation… and so on.
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VoteThatJawn
- Apr 14, 2020
- 3 min
The Pandemic Can’t Stop Us: Youth Vote Initiatives Go Virtual
By Sophie Burkholder The way we vote is about to be turned upside down. Fears of the coronavirus pandemic have prompted fears of...
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VoteThatJawn
- Apr 6, 2020
- 5 min
A Talk, a Book, then a Movie Becomes a Movement to Bend the Moral Arc of Justice
“Just Mercy” tells the story of Bryan Stevenson, a criminal justice lawyer who moves to Alabama to represent wrongly convicted...
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VoteThatJawn
- Apr 3, 2020
- 1 min
The Escobar Brothers Podcast
By Lorene Cary Special thanks to the Escobar family: three talented young musicians who live with their parents in suburban Philadelphia....
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VoteThatJawn
- Apr 3, 2020
- 2 min
You Don’t Always Get What You Want, But . . .
By Lorene Cary I wanted to play trumpet. Blow blow hard! A kid who had asthma, whose breathing sometimes felt like sucking air through a...
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Syra Ortiz-Blanes
- Sep 21, 2018
- 4 min
Countdown for Students and Teachers to VTJ
Organize, Strategize, Socialize, Share and Compare! It’s time to Vote That Jawn: How to get YOU and your friends to the polls. It’s...
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Jacob Kind
- Aug 23, 2018
- 3 min
You’re 18? This Is Your Chance Join Yara Shahidi and Make America Better for Young People
“Control Congress and you control the country.” That’s a quote from Yara Shahidi. Yara Shahidi stars in the hit TV shows Black-ish and...
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Cyé Jacobs
- Aug 23, 2018
- 2 min
What YOU Can Do: It’s Not as Boring, Confusing and Time-Sucking as You Think!
We often hear about the power of voting, how much it means and what it can do. However, that advice usually spews from the mouths of...
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James Peterson
- Aug 23, 2018
- 3 min
They’re Playing Our Votes Like a Video Game
Let me tell you a secret. You know that game Superhex.io? Here’s what it looks like in case you don’t: In the game, you as a player are a...
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Cyé Jacobs
- Aug 23, 2018
- 1 min
GIVE ME THE FACTS! THEN, SHOW UP!!!!!!
There’s been a shortage of turnouts at the polls, specifically with young people. But why? The answer is simple. Youth hear that their...
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Lorene Cary
- Aug 23, 2018
- 2 min
Save the Date: Saturday, 22 Sept 2018
Every year, in addition to our blogsite, SafeKidsStories.com creates a few great events, like two days with iconic children’s illustrator...
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