Philly Children’s Movement in the News!
Tia Mathisen and Tara Rose Brown teamed up together in the Ark Republic piece to sound the alarm on Jay-Z’s educational plan for our city. Check us out!
Author: Jen
Grant Support from the Greenfield Foundation
PCM would like to thank the Greenfield Foundation for a generous General Operating Support grant we received earlier this year! This funding will support our workshops in schools and in the community, our Radical Little Library, and child- and family-centered activism events and campaigns. The Greenfield Foundation funds innovative programs that further the following three[…]
Talking with Kids about Race Caregiver Workshop
The ‘Talking with Young Kids about Race’ is a workshop for parents, teachers, and caregivers of young children aged 0-8 years old. This is a minds-on, participatory workshop with time to learn, share, and discuss strategies and opportunities for talking with young children about race. Facilitators will share resources on both adult racial identity development[…]
PCM Winter 2023/24: What lyric does the world need to hear?
Radical Morning Meeting PCM has been busy this winter! Working with Partners In School Innovation, we are deep into our partnership with four elementary schools in the School District of Philadelphia. The photo above is part of our Radical Morning Meeting coaching work in first grade at the Alexander Adaire Elementary School, where PCM coach[…]
PCM this fall!
After a season of: filling our Radical Little Library with summer reads that offered readers windows, mirrors, and sliding glass doors (Rudine Simms-Bishop), working with families to disrupt book bans, and joyfully resisting and dancing away hate in Philadelphia, PCM has spent the fall supporting schools, families, and partner organizations across the city. Here’s a[…]
Thank you, Resist!
We would like to thank the RESIST grant-making panel for supporting our work again this year! Your theory of change and continued support of grassroots racial and social organizing is so very important us at PCM and to the communities we serve. We are honored to be recognized alongside so many other wonderful collectives and[…]
Harriett’s Bookshop, Ibram X Kendi, and… PCM!
In September, Jeannine Cook (a founding member of PCM and owner of Harriett’s Bookshop) invited PCM to take part in an evening with Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning, Antiracist Baby, and How to be an Antiracist. Kendi’s stunning new children’s book, Magnolia Flower, is an adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston’s short[…]
PCM & Mutual Aid: Community Fridge, Radical Little Garden & Radical Little Library
As a collective, PCM has been working to align our work more with the goals and practices of mutual aid. PCM sees mutual aid as organizing children and families to challenge unequal systems by working to care for each other and meet the needs in our community. One idea we hope to highlight is how[…]
MLK DAY: Dear America…
Please join the Philly Children’s Movement for an hour of storytelling, arts, and activism! January 18 (MLK Day) from 11-noon. The interactive family event will be hosted on zoom and broadcast on FB live. Registration is required. Please click here to register.
#familydayofaction
No words. There are no words to describe the power and sheer numbers of families who took time to talk with the children, their neighbors, and their loved ones about George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Black Lives Matter, the protests, the uprising, police brutality and racial justice. Play is the language of childhood. These[…]