One Penn-founded website is doing its best to help voters know whether or not what the politicians are saying is actually true.

Former City Councilman Jim Kenney won the Philadelphia Democratic primary for mayor last Tuesday with 55.83 percent of the vote. Kenney has explicitly stated his support for a more rigorous citywide PILOTs program.

Penn political groups offer forums for a range of partisan and nonpartisan discussions.

With 98 percent of the vote counted late Tuesday night, Kenney led state Sen. Anthony H. Williams by a comfortable margin, with four other candidates trailing close behind.

With only a few weeks until the May 19 mayoral primary, Penn political groups have started coalescing around specific candidates.

From his office on the 52nd floor of the Comcast Center, David L. Cohen has a panoramic view of Philadelphia, the city in which he is so deeply involved. But he insists on heading to the 56th floor to see his favorite view from the skyscraper.

Pennsylvania will be a crucial state, both in the primaries in April 2016, and in the general election on Nov. 8, 2016. 

Many African and African-American students at Penn believe that the black community is unified because of a shared experience of living as a black person in America — not because black people constitute a homogenized group with assumed similarities beyond the color of their skin.

The former City Councilman At-Large has an even more decisive lead in endorsements than in the polls.

The Social Planning and Events Committee announced the cancelation following the escalation of riots in Baltimore. 

With less than a month until the primary election, a Democratic mayoral debate on Thursday took a harsh tone.

At Penn, student groups engage in issue-related advocacy but rarely turn out to vote.

Six Democratic candidates are vying to win the Democratic primary on May 19, and the race remains wide open.

On April 16, Levine spoke at an event held by Lambda Grads, the LGBT organization for graduate students. Her speech commenced the Day of Silence organized by the Lambda Grads, in which participants remained silent for all of Friday.

On May 20, Philadelphia voters will head to the polls to select their primary candidates for Mayor and City Council.

An estimated 3,000 students from Drexel, Penn, Temple and other colleges stood in front of McDonald's and marched down to the Market Street Bridge. 

The event, which aims to celebrate the power, accomplishments and beauty of black women and girls has come under fire in the past from critics who claim the event promotes reverse racism.