Examining poverty’s systemic roots and its impact on housing, healthcare, education, and criminalization.

Investigating the housing crisis, eviction rates, and systemic barriers to homeownership for marginalized communities and minority groups.

Exploring discrimination in hiring, wage gaps, and economic barriers to upward mobility.

Analyzing COVID-19’s disproportionate effects on marginalized communities and the systemic failures it exposed.

Highlighting the contributions of community inventors, entrepreneurs, and community developers in shaping local and national progress.

Examining the ongoing impact of drug criminalization and its ties to homelessness, resource inaccessibility, mass incarceration and systemic oppression.

Analyzing economic disparities, resource distribution, and barriers to financial stability.

Critiquing local healthcare disparities and the failures of the U.S. system to provide equitable care.

Exploring the historical and contemporary disparities in Black maternal healthcare, including systemic racism in hospitals, super coil and illegal abortions, birth outcomes, and the fight for reproductive justice.

Interrogating the commodification of activism and the difference between performative allyship and true solidarity.

Discussing mental health stigma, access to care, and the unique challenges faced by marginalized communities.

Examining the quality of medical care in correctional facilities, the systemic neglect of incarcerated individuals' health, and the long-term impacts of carceral healthcare policies.

A deep dive into the history and accessibility of hospitals and healthcare services in Delaware County and Philadelphia, focusing on disparities in care for marginalized communities.

Exploring the social determinants of health, environmental racism, and the ways systemic inequities create and sustain health disparities in low-income communities.

Understanding how predatory financial practices, student debt, and wage exploitation keep marginalized communities trapped in economic servitude.

Tracing the history of voter suppression, disenfranchisement, and ongoing struggles for political representation.

Unpacking how dominant ideologies shape power, oppression, and societal norms.

Examining gender disparities in pay, leadership, and societal expectations.

Discussing the need for an alert system focused on missing Black individuals and the disparities in media coverage.

A look at immigration policies, xenophobia, and how immigrant communities have shaped and struggled within Delaware County and Philadelphia.

Analyzing how gentrification has reshaped our communities, displaces long-term residents, and exacerbates racial and economic inequalities.

Examining racial disparities in sentencing, mass incarceration, and the criminalization of marginalized zip codes throughout Philadelphia and Delaware County.

Investigating the history of institutionalization, prison labor, and exploitation at sites like the Clock Towers and Lima in Delaware County.

Discussing Elijah Anderson’s work on inner-city survival strategies, street violence, and the unspoken rules governing urban communities.

A deep dive into Michelle Alexander’s groundbreaking book on mass incarceration as a modern extension of racial segregation.

Highlighting the revolutionary history of Black August and its role in our local political education and resistance.

Exploring how sports, arts, and community programs provide positive alternatives for youth development.

Tracing how school discipline policies disproportionately push Black and Brown students into the criminal justice system.

Analyzing how school policies and environments shape student experiences, opportunities, and academic disparities.

Investigating the inequities in public education, funding disparities, and the fight for equitable schooling.

Exploring how racial stereotypes impact parenting, child development, and family structures.

Investigating the implementation and challenges of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in schools and their impact on students and educators.

Analyzing the policies that shape school environments, including local and statewide policymaking.

Tracing the history of inequitable school funding, the role of policy decisions, and the ongoing fight for fair resource distribution in education.

Discussing pathways beyond high school, including college, trade programs, and community-based opportunities, with a focus on reducing barriers for marginalized youth.

Comparing historical and contemporary grassroots movements and their strategies for systemic change.

Highlighting the role of young people in social movements and their power to create systemic change.

Critiquing how political systems prioritize power over people’s needs and exploring grassroots efforts to reclaim agency.

Exploring how environmental hazards disproportionately affect Black and Brown communities and the fight for environmental justice.

Unpacking the 1985 MOVE bombing, its devastating impact, and its broader implications for state violence against Black liberation movements.

Understanding the patterns and consequences of police brutality and community responses to systemic violence.

Reflecting on historical injustices and envisioning pathways toward transformative justice.