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insert_link Featured This week on WURD: City council condemns “King” Trump narrative, R.I.P. Angie Stone, DA Krasner address leadership critiques todayMarch 7, 2025
insert_link Featured This week on WURD: Philly budget, mass firings, cancer disparities in Black women and continued attacks on DEI todayFebruary 28, 2025
insert_link Featured This week on WURD: Black business goes viral after alleged racial discrimination, Susanna Warder’s lifelong enslavement to William Penn, Black farmer resources todayFebruary 21, 2025
insert_link Featured This week on WURD: Eagles bring home Lombardi trophy, Super Bowl parade, Morris Chestnut on WURD todayFebruary 14, 2025
insert_link 2 Events Writing as Liberation: Honoring Black Writers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art todayFebruary 13, 2025 2
insert_link Featured This week on WURD: Recovery process for Northeast plane crash, Black History Month, Black representation at the Grammys todayFebruary 7, 2025
insert_link 2 Social Justice Phenomenal Black Writers: An Essential Reading List to Survive 2025 todayFebruary 6, 2025 2
insert_link Featured Alarm around Musk’s DOGE probe of sensitive Treasury payment information todayFebruary 6, 2025
insert_link Politics & Government 13 states mandate paid family leave. A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants Pa. to be next. todayFebruary 4, 2025
