It’s not enough to cast your own ballot in 2024. To get all eligible Philadelphians to vote, we need to engage in deep ...

What the watermelon flag says about waving symbols, extreme national distress and the regressive swing of the pendulum ...

Kensington Corridor Trust's community ownership is a possible shining light in a neighborhood beset by drugs and poverty ...

Philly celebrates LGBTQIA+ Pride this year with events for families, partiers, sports fans, arts aficionados — all June long.

The Blue Stoop founder and author of the new novel, Housemates, on the best new books to read this summer by local authors ...

When author (and former Citizen writer) Emma Copley Eisenberg moved back to West Philly in 2015, she was in search of ...

One of the founding tenets of The Philadelphia Citizen is to get people the resources they need to become better, more engaged citizens of their city. Find an issue that’s important to you in the list ...

It’s Teacher Appreciation Week (May 6-10), and without going into the old “Two! Four! Six! Eight!” cheer — it’s so tempting though — The Philadelphia Citizen humbly presents to you a few of the ...

One of the founding tenets of The Philadelphia Citizen is to get people the resources they need to become better, more engaged citizens of their city. Find an issue that’s important to you in the list ...

We need as many good teachers as we can get. Here are some ideas for supporting, encouraging, and keeping good teachers in our classrooms. Thank a teacher. Lobby PA legislators to increase the funds ...

Before Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner took office in 2018, the last time a city police officer was convicted for an on-duty killing was during the Carter administration in 1978. Before ...