Join Brian and David (kinda like a slightly younger, less cool Mister Rogers and Levar Burton….?) from the City Love team each week this summer for our music-filled, love-filled children’s show all about empathy, hope, kindness, joy, creativity, gratitude, fairness, and celebrating our beautiful similarities and differences. (click “The City Love Show” for more information or watch the show playlist below!)

World of Love! This young children’s album is a culmination of our hopes and dreams for the next generation and a musical vaccination against bigotry and hatred.

The Tao Te Ching says, “Sow the great in the small. Difficult things of the world are best tackled in their small beginnings.” Research shows us that prejudice forms very early on (before age 3!) but that we can interrupt that prejudice when we talk in our homes and classrooms about race, celebrating our differences, about fairness, standing up for each other, self-love, caring, and sharing with all people.  This album features students from public, charter and independent schools in Philadelphia as well as renowned advocates for racial justice in education, Dr. Howard Stevenson, Dr. Peggy McIntosh and Dr. Ali Michael.

This album is a musical love letter to the world we need. May it spread Love, justice, freedom, hope, virtue, peace, and gratitude. Thank you for supporting our work and supporting the children. Fifty percent of album profits will go towards organizations working on equitable access to education, children’s advocacy, and anti-racist education.

City Love was honored to perform at the historical Smith Memorial Playground’s Kidchella Music Festival for the third year in a row this summer! Many thanks to ABC news for capturing this beautiful family event and covering some of the wonderfully positive things that happen in the city of brotherly love and sisterly affection.

Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership, Inc. (TTF), in collaboration with Habitheque commissioned us to write this song to help young children learn about the watershed and 6 of the amazing animals that depend on it. The song supports and amplifies the amazing sculpture work by artist Miguel Horn at the “River Alive! Learning Trail” in the Juniata Park neighborhood - adjacent to Tacony Creek Park - will include six stations, each featuring a unique animal sculpture, seating, and English/Spanish bilingual signage for families to learn about the local watershed and nearby Tacony Creek.

This beautiful music video/teaching tool is 3 years in the making thanks to the wonderful illustrator and animator Christophe Marchand and the Carney Sandoe & Association of Delaware Valley Independent Schools Equity in Action Grant.

Episode 22: Talking to Young, White Children About Race, with City Love

Qiana and Brian were honored to be interviewed by Jenna Chandler-Ward for the Teaching While White Podcast. Check out the interview here.

This project was commissioned by Read by 4th of The Philadelphia Free Library and PNC Grow Up Great as part of Reading Promise Week. We got to collaborate with so many great artists including Hip Hop Fundamentals, Lisa Browne, Khalil Munir, and Soulmotion Productions.

This video was a collaboration with wonderfully talented Animator/Animation Director and Gify all-star Patricia Battles as part of the Equity in Action Grant from Carney Sandoe and the Association of Delaware Valley Independent Schools.