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Ali Velshi on Vanishing Women’s Rights

The MSNBC host reviews the degradation of women's rights the world over — including here in the U.S.

By Ali Velshi

Who is Joanna McClinton?

The young, reform-minded, Black Philadelphia Democrat is the first woman Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

By The Philadelphia Citizen Staff

Michael Eric Dyson’s Black History Month All Stars

All-Star #11: C. Delores Tucker

By Michael Eric Dyson
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Ali Velshi on Abortion and the Midterm Elections

The MSNBC host and Citizen Board Member breaks down the effect of overturning Roe v. Wade on the midterm elections nationwide

By Ali Velshi
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Ali Velshi asks — Five Years into #MeToo, has Enough Changed?

MSNBC host looks back at the start and looks toward the future of the #MeToo movement

By Ali Velshi
Citizens of the Week

Kerri Conner Matchett and Anita Conner

A mother and daughter who are living through breast cancer help other Black women access the care they need and deserve

By Lisa Bryant
Ideas We Should Steal

Rape Kit Tracking System

Pennsylvania is one of only 12 states without a statewide system for tracking evidence from rapes, something that holds authorities accountable and helps ease trauma. Two state legislators want to change that

By Grace Shallow

The Price of City Council’s National Politics

Councilmembers’ attempts to legislate national politics distract them from the local issues only they can solve. They should do better.

By Jemille Q. Duncan
Business for Good

Cayaba Care

A West Philly-born holistic maternal health care group has improved pregnancy outcomes for more than 1,000 Philadelphians — and are readying to help more women nationally

By Courtney DuChene
Citizens of the Week

Lynette Medley and Nya McGlone

The mother-daughter duo’s own experience with “period poverty” inspired their Germantown nonprofit No More Secrets, which has distributed over 4 million menstrual products to women experiencing “period poverty” in the last year. 

By Courtney DuChene