Featured This Week on WURD: Vaccine Misinformation, Voting Rights, DEI Backlash & Middle East Conflict Dr. Giridhar Mallya, senior policy officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, joined Dr. James Peterson on Evening WURDs to discuss the recent measles outbreak and the confusion many parents are facing around vaccines. Mallya warned that misinformation and cuts to public health funding are helping fuel the resurgence of a disease once thought eliminated in the United States.Andrew McGinley, vice president of policy for the Committee of 70, joined […]
News WURD Exclusive Coverage: U.S., Israel attacks on Iran trigger conflict in Middle East and uncertainty around the globe Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) fires a Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) in support of Operation Epic Fury, Feb. 28, 2026. (U.S. Navy photo) Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine conduct a press briefing on Operation Epic Fury at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, March 2, 2026. (DOW Photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist […]
Featured This Week on WURD: Jesse Jackson’s legacy, colorectal health, Eagles drama & BAFTA controversy WURD Radio Bill Fletcher Jr., labor activist, author and columnist, joined Solutions with Amadee Braxton to reflect on the legacy of Rev. Jesse Jackson and the lasting impact of the Rainbow Coalition. Fletcher discussed Jackson’s role in expanding Black political power and argued that the coalition-building strategies he championed remain urgently relevant today. Dr. Veronica Jarido, a health advocate and gastroenterologist, joined guest host Candace Johnson on the Midday Break […]
insert_link 4 2 Featured Trump’s Iran chaos is not a bug. It’s a feature. By Dr. James Peterson | WURD Radio“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.” – Herbert HooverThis nation is at war again. Or perhaps more precisely: Donald Trump is at war again.It is stunning to think that in a record-setting State of the Union address, for all of his baiting and bloviating, for all of his lies, this president did not dare to make the case before […] todayMarch 3, 2026 2 4
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insert_link Featured When justice had a megaphone: The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s life in full voice Credit: Eric Guo; cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 03:54, 18 May 2010 (UTC), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons URL Media | Ovetta Wiggins The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., a civil rights icon, gifted orator, and politician whose presidential campaigns changed the landscape of American politics, died Tuesday, according to NPR. He was 84. Jackson, who was initially diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2017, died after a more than 10-year […] todayFebruary 19, 2026
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insert_link Featured When justice had a megaphone: The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s life in full voice Credit: Eric Guo; cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 03:54, 18 May 2010 (UTC), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons URL Media | Ovetta Wiggins The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., a civil rights icon, gifted orator, and politician whose presidential campaigns changed the landscape of American politics, died Tuesday, according to NPR. He was 84. Jackson, who was initially diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2017, died after a more than 10-year […] todayFebruary 19, 2026
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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
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