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The Philadelphia Citizen is a non-profit and non-partisan media outlet with a twofold mission: to deliver in-depth journalism that highlights actionable solutions to advance our community, and to inspire active citizenship in the Philadelphia area. We aim to showcase innovators, challenge those hindering progress, and highlight the emerging leaders of Philadelphia, all while equipping residents with the interactive tools necessary for greater civic engagement. Philadelphia requires more than just another news source; it demands journalism that prioritizes solutions we can collectively implement. It calls for a movement of citizens who are determined to reclaim leadership from a political class often marked by a troubling transactional mentality.

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Stop Using Antisemitism as a Weapon Against Higher Education

1 day ago | thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Elaine Maimon

May. 13, 2025 It’s a play in eight acts, starting in December 2023, when then-University of Pennsylvania President Elizabeth Magill was harassed, humiliated and driven out of office after dozens of Penn students staged a multi-day protest of Israel’s military response to Hamas’ attacks on Israeli civilians. Now on May 7, 2025, we have the maltreatment of Haverford President Wendy Raymond.
Center 1968 + Jasmine Sessmons Seeks the Next Shirley Chisolm

2 days ago | thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Jessica Blatt Press

Math doesn’t lie. And after the November 2024 election, the numbers said it all: A staggering 92 percent of Black women voted for Kamala Harris — while the majority of White women voted for Donald Trump. It was a depressing outcome for Black voting women, who have been overlooked for centuries by policies and politics shaped predominately by White men. But South Philly native Jasmine Sessoms refuses to give up hope.
Mayor Parker, Put that "One Philly" Rhetoric into Action

5 days ago | thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Larry Platt

May. 09, 2025 It was pushing midnight earlier this week when my phone rang. Luckily I was up late, watching the actual GOAT: Steph Curry. It was Michael Nutter on the caller ID. Along with former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, he and I have a blast hosting a regular podcast — How To Really Run a City — and he was calling about some scheduling issue. But, not just that. I hadn’t detected this level of anguish in the Mayor’s voice since he was managing crises in City Hall.
Two Problems, One Solution — SEPTA

5 days ago | thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Jon Geeting

“Location, location, location” is a well-known real estate axiom, and the value of a particular building or piece of land is heavily influenced by the access it provides to different kinds of amenities and services. Among those services that affect housing prices is access to public transportation.
Is this Really Government “Efficiency?”

6 days ago | thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Elaine Maimon

The U.S. has now experienced more than 100 days of Trump’s power. His strategy of flooding the zone makes it difficult to focus on the actual harm to real people. The human mind is overwhelmed by enormity. How many of us have momentarily confused billions with trillions — a difference of only one letter but a super-highway stretch in dollars? For many, it was the story of Anne Frank that brought home the reality of 6 million Jews lost in the Holocaust.
Omar Crowder, Principal for Our Times

6 days ago | thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Jessica Blatt Press

Omar Crowder was in line at the American Airlines terminal in Philadelphia when he got the call: There was a mass shooting in Northeast Philadelphia. Nevermind that he was about to chaperone a group of students on a long-planned 10-day educational trip to Italy — he immediately got out of line, into an Uber, and headed straight back to Northeast High School where, for the last seven years, he has served as principal. “Within minutes, I got a call from the Philadelphia Police Department,” he says.
Charlene Samuels, Constituent Advocate

1 week ago | thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Courtney DuChene

Just a few weeks ago, Charlene Samuels, Constituent Services Representative for City Council Minority Leader Kendra Brooks, got a desperate call from a woman who was about to become homeless. Samuels had been living in the same apartment for a few years when her landlord told her he had sold it, and that she’d have to move out by April 30. The woman, who has three young children, didn’t know how she would find an apartment so quickly. She also knew, however, that isn’t how Philly’s laws work.
Be Like Ike (President Dwight Eisenhower, That Is)

1 week ago | thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Bruce Katz

May. 06, 2025 In his January 1959 State of the Union, in the waning years of his presidency, President Dwight Eisenhower called for a Commission on National Goals. In a speech dominated by Cold War concerns and gargantuan military spending, Eisenhower took the privilege of the presidency to “express something that is very much on my mind:”The basic question facing us today is more than mere survival — the military defense of national life and territory.
Total Impact Summit

1 week ago | thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Courtney DuChene

It’s been eight years since Impact PHL was launched in Philadelphia, and its mission to encourage investors to put their dollars in companies that do good and drive change locally has caught on. Over the past three years, nine local foundations, including Women’s Way, The Alliance for Health Equity and the Kind Foundation, have switched financial advisors so that they can engage in mission-aligned investing and look for opportunities to fund local initiatives.
“Save My Tree”

1 week ago | thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Courtney DuChene

“SAVE MY TREE!”That’s what Nicole Fakhoury heard her two-year-old son crying and begging over the phone, over what sounded like … a chainsaw? Fakhoury was at work last January when her babysitter called in a panic. The tree in question was newly planted in front of Fakhoury’s house when her family bought a home in a new development in Olde Richmond during Covid. As new parents, Fakhoury and her husband loved taking their baby out to see the flowering tree.