Citizens of the Week

Student Gun Reform Activists

Thousands of high schoolers from around the region will walk out of school Wednesday to protest inaction on gun control. And we should thank them

By Jamie Bogert
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Yoni Nadav

The North Philly business owner will give a $75 gift card today to anyone who turns in a gun, no questions asked

By Jamie Bogert
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V2 Creation Myth

Earlie Bird Productions updates the (now controversial) feminist classic The Vagina Monologues for the Trump Era

By Jamie Bogert

We’ll Be Alright

A new Aspen Challenge kicked off this week, putting the world’s problems in the hands of local high schoolers to solve. They just might do it

By Jamie Bogert

This is your grandma’s coffee shop

Old City’s Frieda Cafe offers the opposite of working remotely: Human interaction across the ages

By Jamie Bogert
Jan

16

EVENT:

Book Signing

The New Localism

Tuesday, Jan 16, 2018
5:30 pm-7:30 pm

at The HIVE

Join authors Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak for a conversation about those who hold the real power in c...

Challah for Hunger

A 13-year-old hunger-fighting group with 10,000 student volunteers turns it attention to a crisis in its midst: campus hunger

By Jamie Bogert
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ArtUnited’s Creative Disruption

The art for social change event debuts in Philly this weekend, with affordable pieces that speak to this moment in history

By Jamie Bogert
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#HipHop Ed

As part of a Drexel series on rethinking learning, Columbia professor Chris Emdin explores the melding of school and culture

By Jamie Bogert
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Blitz, Bow Ties & Bourbon

The annual Malcolm Jenkins Foundation event benefits STEAM education for underserved kids

By Jamie Bogert