Youth

After last year’s Ideas We Should Steal Festival, The Citizen awarded $50,000 to pilot a basketball-based gun violence reduction program in Philly. Its long journey has just begun.

For our nation to heal, we must open our ears and hearts to the messages our young people are sending us

With Hill-Freedman World Academy’s fourth album, students weave the anguish of 2020 into powerful new music

#VoteThatJawn and Fresh Artists tap an army of kiddos to turn out the parent vote

Led by 16-year-old Unnati Gupta, a group of local teens is giving young people a way to find inspiration, forge connections, and take action to change their communities

North Philly literacy nonprofit Tree House Books works to make sure that every child has access to books and opportunities to fulfill their dreams

A Lower Merion senior co-founded a student-run foreign policy media outlet that hammers home Gen Z’s commitment to tackling global problems—by finding common ground

The Sixers may be struggling. But through their support of NBA Math Hoops, Philly-area kids get the all-star treatment for excelling—in the classroom

Philly’s new Youth Poet Laureate doesn’t just write well—she does G.O.O.D.

Two local schools are showing that maybe kids know better than adults what real education and civic engagement look like