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...

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...

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,...

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...

By Jamison Cooper THEN The strings seem flat, silver, light. No formal connection to pitch. Just noise. Noise that makes pretty and ugly...

The coronavirus is likely to upend the April 28 primary. That's why Philly 3.0’s engagement director doubles down on his call for mail-in vo

With the April 28 primary approaching in the midst of calls for social isolation, Philly 3.0’s engagement director urges the state to send e

At least 40,000 eligible Philadelphians are not even registered to vote. You can help change that with a new app

As an aspiring activist, I have always wondered about how I should react to social injustice. At marches, you’re supposed to be indignant...

In September, SafeKidsStories joined the historic national movement to mobilize young voters and get them to the polls. We launched Vote...

The sound of steadily beating drums and the flowing notes of the piano invite me into the Mayor’s Reception Room in City Hall. A mahogany...

I watch as my physics professor draws a careful diagram of a block resting on a table, chalk smudging as he redraws force vectors to...

As you walk onto the Mayor’s Reception Room, you are immediately surrounded by history. A statue honoring Amerigo Vespucci and the seal...

When I was in kindergarten, my mom would sit me down at our dinky kitchen table and teach me how to do long addition on the back of bill...

I once was told by a fellow immigrant that living in America is like being in a car going on a never-ending road trip — the citizens are...

I was one of the first students to arrive at WHYY, where the Vote That Jawn event would soon begin and was welcomed in by a kind old...

I am walking out of 15th street station by Centre Square in Philadelphia, and a woman coming up beside me remarks on her phone, “Oh, my...

I’m an average citizen — not someone who keeps up regularly with current events, tweets about politicians, or fully understands the US...

“Behind the ever open gate No pikes shall fence a crumbling throne, No lackeys cringe, no courtiers wait, — This palace is the people’s...

As we waited in the Mayor’s Reception Room for our guests to arrive for the #VoteThatJawn celebration, Philadelphia’s Clef Club Junior...

Rachel Headlam, the 18-year-old Philly character animator and I meet at a bustling juice shop. “I’m wearing a white pinstriped shirt, a...

“The quality of the dining hall food just doesn’t match the tuition fee I’m paying,” someone just complained to me. I nodded earnestly,...

I can recall the first time my parents saw Barack Obama on TV as if it happened yesterday. I was in first grade. My parents were talking...