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: Chávez allegations, DHS leadership, media threats, Target boycotts & Black womanhood todayMarch 20, 2026
insert_link Featured State of the Union: Trump’s Account Versus What Americans Are Really Feeling todayFebruary 26, 2026
insert_link Featured Don Lemon became the face of the government’s overreach, but 50 federal agents showed up at her door first todayFebruary 5, 2026
insert_link Featured This Week on WURD: ICE and immigration, “The Coroner’s Silence,” abortion as a human right todayNovember 26, 2025
insert_link 3 Featured This week on WURD: Remembering Assata Shakur, Ali Velshi on shutdown and democracy, gridlock in Harrisburg todayOctober 2, 2025 3
insert_link 2 Featured This week on WURD: The Stylistics’ Herb Murrell, Ready, Set, Grow, National Guard in D.C. todaySeptember 5, 2025 2
insert_link Featured This week on WURD: Philly’s mental health crisis, attack on civil rights, new student loan law todayJuly 17, 2025
