insert_link 1 Events 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 […] todayDecember 14, 2023 1
Commentary Dr. James Peterson: The messiness of America’s drained-pool politics Perhaps Washington's Reflecting Pool should stay exactly as it is. Its mess reflects ours. By Dr. James Peterson The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become an unironic reflection of the current administration. The Reflecting Pool is supposed to center the architecture of American democracy – the Washington Monument, the Lincoln […] todayAugust 27, 2026
insert_link Featured This Week on WURD: Cory Booker, Black History Archives, Space Equity & Global Security todayApril 3, 2026
insert_link 2 Featured This Week on WURD: Hair Equity, ICE Accountability, Transit Taxes & Global Security todayMarch 27, 2026 2
insert_link Featured This Week on WURD: Chávez allegations, DHS leadership, media threats, Target boycotts & Black womanhood todayMarch 20, 2026
News This Week on WURD: August in Black, real impacts of DEI attacks, tech in classrooms Luke Bilger, executive director of educational technology for the School District of Philadelphia, joined Life and Tech with TechLifeSteph to discuss the district’s back-to-school technology policies. Bilger said every K-12 student receives a Chromebook, while generative AI chatbots are limited to high school students using district-approved Google Gemini accounts to protect student data. Ryan Mulholland, senior fellow for international economic policy at the Center for American Progress, joined Dr. James Peterson on Evening WURDs to discuss escalating U.S.-Canada trade tensions. […] todayAugust 28, 2026
Commentary Dr. James Peterson: The messiness of America’s drained-pool politics Perhaps Washington's Reflecting Pool should stay exactly as it is. Its mess reflects ours. By Dr. James Peterson The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become an unironic reflection of the current administration. The Reflecting Pool is supposed to center the architecture of American democracy – the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial. These days, we all see an administration reflected back at itself: murky, expensive, badly managed, reflexively punitive and seemingly incapable of accepting responsibility for any of the mess it […] todayAugust 27, 2026
Politics & Government Freedom Journeys: Muhammad Kenyatta’s legacy living on through his grandson, State Sen. Malcolm Kenyatta Civil rights leader Muhammad Kenyatta with his grandson, future State Sen. Malcolm Kenyatta (Credit: Malcolm Kenyatta) Muhammad Kenyatta’s fight for justice stretched from challenging discrimination in the U.S. Air Force to organizing in Mississippi, where FBI surveillance and intimidation forced his family to flee, and later activism in Philadelphia. His grandson, State Sen. Malcolm Kenyatta, reflects on discovering that legacy only after his father’s death and the remarkable ways their lives have echoed — from both men being ordained as […] todayAugust 22, 2026
News This Week on WURD: Chris Rabb on democratic socialism, measles on the rise, and Philly’s data center fight Dr. Jason Johnson, professor of politics and journalism at Morgan State University and political analyst for MS NOW, joined Dr. James Peterson on Evening WURDs to discuss the National Association of Black Journalists conference and its “Thumbs Down” awards. Johnson backed NABJ’s criticism of The Washington Post, CBS News and Stephen A. Smith, arguing that accountability for poor journalism and treatment of Black journalists is not punishment. Dr. Tim Golden, lawyer, doctor of philosophy and former criminal defense attorney, joined […] todayAugust 22, 2026 2
insert_link Featured Dr. James Peterson: The Grammar of American Democracy The Grammar of American Democracy By Dr. James Peterson We need you to vote. We need you to tell everyone you know to register and to vote. “We” is a first-person plural pronoun. I am speaking to Black people. We need you to vote your interests. I know how this sounds. I know that voting does not seem (has not seemed) to matter. But it does. It matters right now […] todayMay 20, 2026
Celebrating environmental justice and activism: EcoWURD presents EcoFest on Saturday, April 20, from 1 to 5 p.m. at Belmont Mansion
