CitizenCast

We love athletes speaking out on social issues. But what do you do when the athlete turns out to be...not so bright?

Citizen Board Member and MSNBC host Ali Velshi explains how paid family leave benefits the economy and asks why the U.S. is dead last for extending these rights. If our electeds in Congress get paid family leave, why can't you?

This Salvadoran immigrant is a "social worker without a title" to a community often invisible to city government. Zulma Guzman is our Citizen of the Week.

The city controller's new report on trash pickup during the pandemic finds that even our collection is uneven, declining and varies by neighborhood. Welcome to Filthadelphia...

Progressives got shellacked. Will Philly Dems double-down on democratic socialism—or finally embrace being a governing party?

The District's new magnet schools policy is putting the progressive push for equity under an uncomfortable lens. Does it even solve the real problems?

In this episode of Generation Change Philly we discover Tanya Morris and her nonprofit Mom Your Business coaching Black and Brown female entrepreneurs to be the city's next business leaders

WURD host Charles Ellison interviews Ya Fav Trashman (Terrill Haigler) and app developer Morgan Berman about using our phones to tackle filthy streets

Board member Ali Velshi explains what a billionaire tax is and how the country can be collectively lifted by it.

While Democrats tear down statues of Thomas Jefferson and deride parents' involvement in schools, can Josh Shapiro's campaign for governor point the way forward for his often bumbling party?

Ali Velshi, a Citizen board member, reminds us that ignoring the climate change crisis will have multi-generational impacts

As cities around the country work to protect residents from traffic accidents, a new bill passed by Council in the name of equity does exactly the opposite.

Less than 30 percent of Philadelphia residents have a bachelor's degree. This college president argues one way to change that is better access to high-quality childcare on campus.

Does a rape in front of silent witnesses on the El signify that, amid rampant disorder, citizens have given up on that which keeps us all together: citizenship itself?

This fight in South Philly is a proxy for the divide that threatens to engulf all of us. Have we lost all sense of nuance and complexity?

City Council's proposal for "inclusionary housing" will only make it harder to get affordable homes for the people who need them. But there is a simple solution: unlock public lands.

Ali Velshi takes us through a day in the life of a typical consumer and shows how supply chain issues are impacting us all. 

An interview with Independence Blue Cross CEO Greg Deavens on the benefits of diversity hiring—for business and otherwise—and the importance of tackling health inequality.

Sudan Green brings community-based yoga, mindfulness and peace to Black Philadelphians, who are still underserved by the wellness community. It is a revolutionary act for our times, which makes him part of Generation Change Philly.

Immigrants and refugees remind us that, at its best, America is a place where, if you work hard, and get a fair shot at an education, you can become anything you want to be.

Chicago's Urban Growers Collective grows fresh produce on a teaching farm and then brings it directly to citizens living in food deserts, a full-service program that goes beyond anything in Philly. Let's steal the idea.

Another day, another trial of Philly's once-powerful. This time, maybe there are some lessons to be learned for cleaning up our politics

Melanie Cataldi, the next in our series of Philadelphians working to change the status quo, turned her masters thesis into the poverty-fighting culinary school at Philabundance. Her goal: ending hunger for good.

How was it that, within a decade after the nation's founding, America's economy dwarfed those of European countries? What does our history of ingenuity and economic diversity tell us about our future?  Ali Velshi does a breakfast chat with Richard Vague, author of "An Illustrated Business History of the United States," to compare notes.

Roxanne sits with Jo Piazza and Christine Pride to discuss their new Philly-based novel about a cross-racial friendship tested by the police shooting of a young Black teen.