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This Week on WURD: Schools, Art, Olympics & Joe Frazier

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This Week on WURD: Schools, Art, Olympics & Joe Frazier

WURD Radio Arthur Steinberg, president of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, joined Solomon Jones on Wake Up With WURD to discuss proposed school closures. He warned of “devastating” impacts on neighborhoods, staff morale, and enrollment. Steinberg said the district has not provided enough underlying data to explain why specific schools were selected.Eleanor Nairne, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, joined Tiffany Bacon on Midday Break […]

When justice had a megaphone: The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s life in full voice

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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 […]

I Am Jesse Jackson – Dr. James Peterson

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I Am Jesse Jackson – Dr. James Peterson

Photo by Eric Draper. Credit: LBJ Library from Austin, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsDr. James Peterson | WURD RadioWhen I was little, my parents told me I would be the first Black president of the United States.Being that young and impressionable, I believed them. What I did not yet understand was the architecture of possibility. I did not grasp the mathematics of improbability, the long odds, the history, the resistance. […]

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This Week on WURD: State budgets, missing persons, global representation & systemic justice

Gov. Josh Shapiro joined Solomon Jones on Wake Up With WURD to discuss his proposed $53.2 billion state budget, promising no tax increases while boosting funding for schools, housing, and transit. He renewed a push to legalize recreational marijuana, with set-asides for small and diverse businesses. Shapiro also backed legal action to restore Philadelphia’s President’s House slavery exhibit.Natalie Wilson, chief operating officer of the Black and Missing Foundation, joined Wake […]

todayFebruary 13, 2026

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Don Lemon became the face of the government’s overreach, but 50 federal agents showed up at her door first

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 […]

todayFebruary 5, 2026

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