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- 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
- May 5, 2020
- 3 min
OUR VOTES, OUR LIVES
The Point Was, Voices of Young Activists Can, and Should Matter By David Bradley "When adults came to Selma, Selma had already been...
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VoteThatJawn
- May 4, 2020
- 2 min
Step-By-Step Guide for Philly Youth Voters During COVID-19
The coronavirus has disrupted our way of life, and our elections. But you can still vote! Review this guide for tips on...
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VoteThatJawn
- May 4, 2020
- 3 min
First Land of the Free?
Wyoming: An Unsung Champion of The Women’s Suffrage Movement By Tanner Probst Although we often think of the drive for equality as a...
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VoteThatJawn
- May 4, 2020
- 3 min
Calm About It: Women Exercised their Voting Rights Before the 19th Amendment
By Tanner Probst Women may have won the right to vote in 1920, but some voted decades before it was legal. The women’s suffrage movement...
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VoteThatJawn
- May 4, 2020
- 1 min
Interactive Constitution Project
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for...
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VoteThatJawn
- May 4, 2020
- 2 min
We the People Learn to Interpret the Constitution
By Tanner Probst "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic...
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VoteThatJawn
- May 4, 2020
- 3 min
I Will Vote
By Blake Kiernan “The only thing that matters more than our health and safety is the freedom to choose how we are governed.” The above...
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VoteThatJawn
- May 4, 2020
- 3 min
Voting History: The 15th Amendment
By Tanner Probst “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State...
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VoteThatJawn
- Apr 18, 2020
- 1 min
Why Music on a Youth Voting Site?
Because music is a gateway to the things that matter to you. What matters to us is what motivates us to vote. Hill-Freeman Music Director...
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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 18, 2020
- 3 min
There Is No Planet B
Earth is the only known habitable planet. A gassy envelope mostly of oxygen and nitrogen extends 300 miles above our surface.
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VoteThatJawn
- Apr 14, 2020
- 4 min
Water, Climate Crisis, and Future of Philadelphia
By Swati Hegde, Ph.D. The Water Center, University of Pennsylvania A clean and safe water supply along with effectively managed...
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VoteThatJawn
- Apr 14, 2020
- 3 min
Vote for Climate Justice!
By Samira Mehta Long, slimy, black bugs,—dozens—swam across the water’s surface in a white, plastic bucket. A woman bent over it and...
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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
- 2 min
At Music, I Suck … or Used To
By Giovanna Cicalese When I was younger, I listened to all kinds of music on the radio, mostly guided by my dad, a drummer. I played...
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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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VoteThatJawn
- Apr 2, 2020
- 1 min
My Place, All Over the Place
By Jada Orr When I was younger I had a lot of unorthodox idols in the music industry. I enjoyed singers with dark and gritty sounds and...
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VoteThatJawn
- Apr 2, 2020
- 2 min
Finding the Right Chord
By Shamaur Williams THEN When I was younger I was hidden within myself. Locked away in my head, because I never kept a steady home,...
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VoteThatJawn
- Apr 2, 2020
- 1 min
The Song is About Life
By Umu Diallo As a child I wanted to do everything. At first it was writing, then singing, then playing an instrument and so on. You...
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VoteThatJawn
- Apr 2, 2020
- 1 min
This Is It! Perfection.
By Jamison Cooper THEN The strings seem flat, silver, light. No formal connection to pitch. Just noise. Noise that makes pretty and ugly...
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