Voice: Jessica Blatt Press
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A Healing Embrace
Homelessness can cut life expectancy by 20 years, in part because of health issues that particularly affect women. A new Project HOME safe haven offers women a place to heal
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Listen: Reverse Racial Migration, Misogyny and the Math of Democracy
The newest episode of our How to Really Run a City podcast welcomes New York Times journalist and documentarian Charles Blow
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Listen: The State — and Future — of Policing in Cities
The latest episode of our How to Really Run a City podcast presents the final installment of an in-depth conversation between legendary Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey and co-hosts Kasim Reed, Michael Nutter, and Larry Platt
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INTEGRITY ICON 2024: LOOKING FOR HEROES
Know an amazing city worker? Nominate them for our 4th annual Integrity Icon Awards. The deadline is February 21
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Saving Women’s Hearts
Heart disease, which kills one in three women every year, is the number one cause of death in the United States. Temple cardiologist Deborah Crabbe is on a mission to change that.
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Citizen of the Year Awards: Dr. David C. Fajgenbaum
The Penn Medicine physician turned his five near-death experiences into a mission to save the lives of people suffering from humanity’s 12,000 known diseases. Is it any wonder, then, that Fajgenbaum is our Citizen of the Year?
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CITIZEN OF THE YEAR AWARDS: Robert Saleem Holbrook
The A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. Social Justice Champion spent 27 years in prison before a Supreme Court ruling set him free. Now, he teaches about criminal justice at Penn and heads the Abolitionist Law Center
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Listen: Gang Wars and Good Data
In the newest installment of How to Really Run a City, The Citizen’s acclaimed podcast, legendary Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey returns for a powerful conversation about public safety.
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