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Featured This Week on WURD: Media accountability in politics, the holiday stress on mothers, environmental justice in Chester, and the legacies of Jimmy Jam and Laiya St. Clair
Featured This week on WURD: The fight over Warner Bros., equitable access to AI tools, the toll of mass incarceration
Featured This week on WURD: $5 million URL Media grant, tensions in Venezuela, Black farmers and the government shutdown
insert_link Featured This Week on WURD: Media accountability in politics, the holiday stress on mothers, environmental justice in Chester, and the legacies of Jimmy Jam and Laiya St. Clair todayDecember 19, 2025
insert_link Featured This week on WURD: The fight over Warner Bros., equitable access to AI tools, the toll of mass incarceration todayDecember 12, 2025
insert_link Featured This week on WURD: $5 million URL Media grant, tensions in Venezuela, Black farmers and the government shutdown todayDecember 5, 2025
insert_link Featured This Week on WURD: ICE and immigration, “The Coroner’s Silence,” abortion as a human right todayNovember 26, 2025
insert_link Featured This Week on WURD: Grammy and Tony Award winner Heather Headley, DA Larry Krasner on crime in Philadelphia, Philadelphia’s porch pirate issue todayNovember 21, 2025
insert_link Featured This Week on WURD: Passage of Pennsylvania’s state budget, NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom, visual artistry through self-regard todayNovember 14, 2025
