Linn Washington Jr., Philadelphia Tribune columnist, former journalist and retired Temple University journalism professor, joined Solomon Jones on Wake Up With WURD to discuss the Trump administration’s third-country deportation policy and its mounting costs. Washington called the policy cruel and wasteful, while also pointing to Philadelphia’s low voter turnout as […]
Civil rights leader Muhammad Kenyatta with his grandson, future State Sen. Malcolm Kenyatta (Credit: Malcolm Kenyatta) Muhammad Kenyatta’s fight for justice stretched from challenging discrimination in the U.S. Air Force to organizing in Mississippi, where FBI surveillance and intimidation forced his family to flee, and later activism in Philadelphia. His […]
Dr. Jason Johnson, professor of politics and journalism at Morgan State University and political analyst for MS NOW, joined Dr. James Peterson on Evening WURDs to discuss the National Association of Black Journalists conference and its “Thumbs Down” awards. Johnson backed NABJ’s criticism of The Washington Post, CBS News and […]
