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Sara M. Lomax | The Philadelphia Inquirer This piece was initially published by the Philadelphia Inquirer on February 3, 2026. Black media matters. Right here, right now, and more than ever before. We are the essential workers on the front lines of a growing resistance movement. As the owner and operator of WURD Radio, Philadelphia’s only multiplatform Black talk radio station, my team and I are focused on a singular […]

Journalist Errin Haines, president of the National Association of Black Journalists, joined Solomon Jones on Wake Up With WURD to discuss an NABJ town hall on press freedom and journalist safety. Haines addressed the arrests of independent Black journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, warned about a chilling effect on reporting, and urged the public to support credible Black journalism as a core democratic protection.Dr. Yaba Blay, assistant teaching professor […]

By Dr. James Peterson | WURD RadioFifty federal agents don’t show up at your door for nothing.But despite the outsized operation, Nekima Levy Armstrong — an attorney, civil rights organizer, reverend, and a mother — didn’t commit violence.Her alleged crime? She walked into a church in St. Paul, Minn., worshiped with the congregation, and asked a question about why their pastor also served as a local director for U.S. Immigration […]