Youth

The coaches are empowering youth off and on the field through their work with Up2Us Sports and Kensington Soccer Club

Shannon Morales’ Echo Me Forward links minority candidates with good jobs. This weekend, the Philly Startup Leaders grad will help teen girls achieve their entrepreneurial dreams.

Give and Go Athletics uses sports to give kids in Brewerytown the confidence to be who they want to be

With the recent announcement to provide Wi-Fi to 35,000 low-income student households, city leaders showed that they can leave their silos in order to forge real change

Central High School teacher Thomas Quinn will pivot in whatever direction the world sends him in the name of getting out the youth vote

The ParentChild+ program has boosted high school graduation among Philly’s most vulnerable children—by showing up at their homes

Got screen zombies on your couch? Sign them up for these socially distant summer activities

In 1967, thousands of students marched to protest inadequate schooling for Black Philadelphians. In this new moment of racial uprising, a group of high schoolers won the right to honor them.

A new citywide student-run newspaper is a connection among Philly high schoolers—something missing even before the pandemic

The Citizen’s 2020 Jeremy Nowak Urban Innovation Award will go to a program fighting gun violence and incarceration through basketball. Here, one of the organizers explains what it means to him—and for young black men in Philly