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 The Defenders: Why Black Americans Are the Backbone of American Democracy todayOctober 1, 2025
insert_link Featured This week on WURD: Philly’s mental health crisis, attack on civil rights, new student loan law todayJuly 17, 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 News This week on WURD: Gov. Josh Shapiro, the 76ers in Chinatown, superintendent Tony Watlington on the start of the school year and more todaySeptember 8, 2023
insert_link Commentary Anita Hill: Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Nomination to the Supreme Court Signals Historic Change todayFebruary 28, 2022
