Photos by Aidan Gallo

Michelle Flamer, a retired lawyer, stands for a portrait at the Good Trouble Lives On protest at City Hall on July 17, 2025. “I’m out here as a black woman because I really think we need to have more engagement from all people, not just the more middle-aged people that you see at these rallies,” Flamer said. She hopes that more young people of color will start to participate in such protests.

A crowd cheers at the Good Trouble Lives On protest at City Hall on July 17, 2025.

A man records with his video camera at the Good Trouble Lives On protest on July 17, 2025.

Linda Field (left), Founder and CEO of The PowerUp Foundation, holds Commissioner Omar Sabir’s hand while speaking at the Trouble Lives On protest on July 17, 2025.

A man holds his signs at the Good Trouble Lives On protest on July 17, 2025.

Kenneth Mitchell protests at City Hall while kids bike by at the Good Trouble Lives On protest on July 17, 2025.

Makayla Myers, Host Organizer and a Fellow with the Transformative Justice Coalition, speaks while an ASL Interpreter signs at the Good Trouble Lives On protest on July 17, 2025. “It doesn’t matter which side of the aisle you are on; this is everyone’s fight,” she said. Myers, 23, stressed the importance of civic engagement from younger people as well as honoring John Lewis’s legacy. “If we don’t speak for ourselves, who will?”

Algeria, 55, poses for a portrait outside City Hall after the event on July 17, 2025. “We are all brothers and sisters; it will take everybody to bring Philadelphia back again,” she said.