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A Village of Moms, for Moms
In 2011, Alexia Omega Doumbouya had just given birth to a beautiful, healthy, happy baby girl. So she couldn’t figure out why she was struggling to connect to her daughter. Or why she didn’t feel like...
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15+ Ways to Help Others for Thanksgiving
Yay, Thanksgiving! Your aunt’s legendary stuffing! Black Friday sales! Football (GO, BIRDS)! Whatever your family tradition may be, Thanksgiving is as good an opportunity as any to give thanks — and...
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Working While Menopause-ing
One of the most read articles in The New York Times Magazine this year was one that the writer, Susan Dominus, almost didn’t think worth a story because, she said later, it wasn’t something she thought...
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MEET THE 2023 CITIZENS OF THE YEAR
“Some men see things as they are and say, why; I dream things that never were and say, why not.” When Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw crafted those lines, he didn’t know they’d go on to make...
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Saving Pennsylvania Moms
Lashana Gilmore was just 34 years old when, in 2019, she died giving birth to her second baby. Her death sent a shock through her West Philadelphia community — and through her State Representative,...
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Development … for Good: Built to Heal with Michael Murphy
Architect Michael Murphy, founder of MASS Design Group, drew a crowd of 125 to the Fitler Club on December 14. For a little over an hour, Murphy and Inga Saffron, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture...
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Guest Commentary: The 3 Numbers Everyone Must Know
The story of Christian Hall’s death tragically resembles that of West Philadelphia’s Walter Wallace. In 2020, Hall, age 19, amid Covid, following a depression diagnosis, felt he was in a mental health...
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Citizen of the Year Awards: Dr. David C. Fajgenbaum
It was the night before April Fools’ Day, 2021, when Dr. David Fajgenbaum received the text: President Clinton read your book and would like to talk. Despite the outpouring of praise for his...
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Saving Women’s Hearts
When Deborah Crabbe was a 12-year-old growing up in the Bronx, she faced a dilemma: She knew she wanted to work with less fortunate communities — she was a child of the 60s who grew up hearing about...
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Guest Commentary: Holding Out for a Hero
Five years ago, I developed a cough that would not go away. Further medical investigation found that I had developed a fibrotic lung condition called interstitial lung disease. Although I was assured...
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“Someone To Connect With”
When Relina Bonilla left her job to help raise her grandchildren, she didn’t realize how challenging — or lonely — it would be. The Kensington resident used to work as a Head Start teacher. So when her...
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The Citizen Recommends: Embracing the Light
This is how Catherine Siciliano recently described the pain she felt after her 26-year-old son died by suicide in November 2008: … a pain that clutches your heart so tight you can feel it pulsing...
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Listen: Ali Velshi on Kamala Harris’ Visit to Planned Parenthood
On Thursday, March 14, Vice President Kamala Harris toured a Planned Parenthood clinic. It was the first time a president or vice president had made a visit to a facility that performs abortions. Ali...
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A Healing Embrace
The first thing you notice is the quiet. Entering the doors of Joyce’s Place, Project HOME’s new safe haven for women experiencing homelessness, feels a bit like entering a student center at a liberal...
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Listen: Ali Velshi on the Need for DEI in Medicine
The targeting of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts has become popular in right-wing discourse and even in Congress. For Ali Velshi, this is no less than a matter of life and death. Black...
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