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insert_link Featured This week on WURD: NJ city’s slavery reenactment request, activism through politics, the spiritual successor to “Love Jones” todaySeptember 26, 2025
insert_link Featured This week on WURD: Actress Starletta DuPois, Michael Coard’s fight to protect Philadelphia’s Black history, DA Larry Krasner on the National Guard todaySeptember 19, 2025
insert_link Featured Black America should care that Charlie Kirk was murdered. Here’s why. todaySeptember 16, 2025
insert_link Featured This week on WURD: Pulitzer Prize winner Trymaine Lee, remembering 9/11, Charlie Kirk murder todaySeptember 12, 2025
insert_link 2 Featured This week on WURD: The Stylistics’ Herb Murrell, Ready, Set, Grow, National Guard in D.C. todaySeptember 5, 2025 2
insert_link Featured This week on WURD: Actor Richard Lawson, prostate cancer awareness, 20 years after Hurricane Katrina todayAugust 29, 2025
insert_link Featured Let’s All Go Back to School: Why Learning Is Our Greatest Act of Resistance todayAugust 28, 2025
insert_link Press Release Official WURD Radio Statement on the Resolution of Doctors Directory Litigation todayAugust 27, 2025