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Race & Diaspora

Women’s History Month: Honoring Laura Wheeler Waring

By Valerie HarrisLast month New York’s Metropolitan Museum launched an exciting new exhibit of works by artists of the Harlem Renaissance. Among the artists featured is Laura Wheeler Waring, a painter best known for her portraits of prominent African Americans of the mid-20th century. If the name sounds familiar, perhaps its because of the Laura W. Waring elementary school in Philadelphia’s Fairmount neighborhood. But that’s only a small part of the artist’s legacy. Laura Wheeler Waring was deeply connected to […]

todayMarch 28, 2024 7

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ICYMI

This week on WURD: A preview of the 2024 attorney general candidates, how Act 40 will affect the city and a glimpse into SCOTUS’ case on social media

Attorney general candidates Joe Khan, Jared Solomon, Keir Bradford-Grey and Eugene DePasquale were able to showcase their political plans for listeners on The Source with Andrea Lawful-Sanders. The candidates outlined their proposed policies regarding gun violence and reform, senior care and social media reform. State Sen. Vincent Hughes spoke to Solomon Jones on Wake Up With WURD about ongoing revitalization efforts for minority-owned businesses in Philadelphia after he embarked on a tour with U.S. Sen. Bob Casey at 52nd and Market streets. Devon Ombres […]

todayMarch 21, 2024 2

Commentary

Why Good People Like Bad Leaders

By: W. Nick Taliaferro Nick Taliaferro is a veteran Radio Personality, Minister, and the former Executive Director of the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations. He is also a Contributing Editor of Message Magazine. When you hear the word “attractive”, you think of someone (or thing) that has beauty, or that has some compelling attribute. An attractive flower, or a good-looking woman or man – perhaps an actress or athlete come to mind. So why are we drawn to criminals? What is it about […]

todayMarch 15, 2024 1

Commentary

Politics: The Good, the Bad, and…

By: W. Nick Taliaferro Nick Taliaferro is a veteran Radio Personality, Minister, and the former Executive Director of the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations. He is also a Contributing Editor of Message Magazine. Governor Josh Shapiro, in the company of House Speaker Joanna McClinton and House Majority Leader Matt Bradford, did a really good thing last week. But in the interest of balance, I must add that the good thing that they did came in the wake of what many […]

todayMarch 15, 2024

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News

The Parker administration’s budget proposal is out. Here is what City Council members had to say about it.

"I am in awe. I have no critique." That was the reaction from City Council Live's host Ernest Owens during his exclusive interview with Philadelphia's 100th Mayor Cherelle Parker after she delivered her 2025 fiscal year budget address to the legislative body during their March 14 stated meeting. Parker gave the speech to several standing ovations as she outlined her funding proposal for a $6.3 billion city budget emphasizing six priorities: public safety, clean and green, economic opportunity, housing, education […]

todayMarch 15, 2024

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ICYMI

This week on WURD: DA charges on SEPTA shooting, uncovering Philly’s Quaker’s ties to slavery, environmental justice in Nigeria

Larry Krasner, district attorney for Philadelphia, spoke to Solomon Jones on Wake Up With WURD about the teens arrested and charged for the SEPTA bus stop shooting that injured eight high school students. Avis Wanda McClinton, founder of the 339 Manumissions and Beyond Project, joined The Source's Andrea Lawful Sanders along with several members of the organization to discuss their ongoing project to uncover the lost history of Philadelphia's founding Quakers, who enslaved Africans. Ernest Crim III, a Black history educator and influencer, […]

todayMarch 13, 2024

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ICYMI

This week on WURD: Mayor Parker on fatal SEPTA shootings, a police encounter with a top Philly official, the legacy of Bob Marley and more

Mayor Cherelle Parker spoke to Wake Up With WURD host Solomon Jones after three consecutive days of fatal shootings near or on SEPTA buses. She disclosed her plan to concentrate law enforcement agencies' efforts to enhance public safety. Attorney Kevin Mincey represents Philadelphia’s top LGBTQ+ official Celena Morrison-McLean and her husband Darius McLean. Mincey addressed with Solomon Jones the couple’s civil lawsuit after a fraught incident with a state trooper. Reinaldo Marcus Green, director of the Bob Marley biopic “One Love,” joined The Source with […]

todayMarch 7, 2024

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Education

Was Cheyney University placed on probation in violation of protocol?

by Michael Coard, Pennsylvania Capital-Star March 4, 2024An hour before its Feb. 23 Founder’s Day event to celebrate its 187th anniversary, Cheyney University — the country’s first HBCU — held a press conference where university leaders blasted the Middle States Commission on Higher Education’s (MSCHE’s) decision to place the university on probation. Sen. Vincent Hughes (D- Philadelphia), a member of the university’s Council of Trustees, issued a warning for every Black institution of higher learning: “HBCUs all across the country: If […]

todayMarch 7, 2024

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Business & Technology

Bringing innovation and incubation to North Philly

By Kiara Santos An in-depth interview on entrepreneurship during Women’s History Month withTanya Morris, the visionary behind Mom Your Business (MYB), Whitney Frederick, founder of It's Seasoned, details their inspiring journeys of entrepreneurship and grassroot efforts to bring innovation to an area of Philadelphia not often thought of as a hub of entrepreneurship. They focused on the growth and impact of MYB Hub North for Black and Brown women alike in the lower north sector of Philadelphia as an effort […]

todayMarch 1, 2024

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