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: Passage of Pennsylvania’s state budget, NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom, visual artistry through self-regard todayNovember 14, 2025
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insert_link Featured This week on WURD: Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s legacy, centering Black educators, examining Breonna Taylor’s case todayJuly 24, 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 Featured This week on WURD: Confronting anti-DEI, senior citizens organize tenant union, ICE raid in Northeast Philly todayJanuary 31, 2025
insert_link ICYMI This week on WURD: Delco DEI director dismissed, Mississippi torture case, what you need to know about AI and more todayApril 4, 2024