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2023 Empowerment Experience Photo Gallery

On Saturday, December 9, WURD Radio celebrated Black commerce, the holidays, and the spirit of ujamaa at our annual Empowerment Experience marketplace. More than 25 vendors, selling high-quality items like eyeglasses, crocheted goods, dolls, health supplements, clothing, books, beauty products and much more, gathered in the Family Life Center at Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church East. For five hours, WURD welcomed the public to shop, eat and have fun alongside friends and […]

December 14, 2023 1

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State of the Union: Trump’s Account Versus What Americans Are Really Feeling

Solomon Jones | WURD RadioOn Tuesday, Donald Trump will deliver the State of the Union Address. When he does, he’ll share the personal stories of everyday Americans and tell us his policies are working. He’ll cite studies and statistics to assure us that things are fine. But, I don’t think he’ll be speaking from experience. I doubt that Trump goes to the supermarket like the rest of us. I doubt that he […]

February 26, 2026

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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 […]

February 20, 2026

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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 […]

February 19, 2026

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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. […]

February 19, 2026

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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 […]

February 13, 2026