Wake Up With WURD 7:00 am - 10:00 am more_vert Wake Up With WURD Hosted by award-winning journalist Solomon Jones, Wake Up With WURD is a news and entertainment talk show that promotes dialogue and debate on today's hottest issues, and does so from a black perspective. Our guests include journalists, politicians, leaders, academics, and pop-culture icons. We seek to share news and information interactively, to engage our listeners in meaningful and compelling dialogue, and to use information as a basis for action. close
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: 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: Recovery process for Northeast plane crash, Black History Month, Black representation at the Grammys todayFebruary 7, 2025
insert_link Featured This week on WURD: Confronting anti-DEI, senior citizens organize tenant union, ICE raid in Northeast Philly todayJanuary 31, 2025
insert_link 2 Featured This week on WURD: Sixer’s arena stays in South Philly, Philly leaders react to swift change, Los Angeles wildfires todayJanuary 17, 2025 2
insert_link 1 Featured This week on WURD: Racism in American healthcare, covering the upcoming Trump administration, Philly’s juvenile justice system todayJanuary 10, 2025 1
insert_link Featured This week on WURD: Marcus Garvey’s son petitions for fathers pardon, Office of Clean & Green Initiatives 2024 achievements, one of the last Black women in Army Corp soldiers from the Vietnam War todayJanuary 3, 2025
insert_link Featured This week on WURD: Kwanzaa celebrations at AAMP, Eagle’s record 10-game winning streak, councilmember votes on Sixers arena todayDecember 20, 2024
insert_link Featured This week on WURD: Downtown Sixers arena approved by council, Remembering Nikki Giovanni, the roots of Philly’s gun violence todayDecember 13, 2024
