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: State budgets, missing persons, global representation & systemic justice todayFebruary 13, 2026
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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 Refrigerator King: Our Leader’s Legacy in a Fractured Democracy todayJanuary 16, 2026
insert_link 2 Featured This week on WURD: The fight over Warner Bros., equitable access to AI tools, the toll of mass incarceration todayDecember 12, 2025 2
insert_link Featured This week on WURD: $5 million URL Media grant, tensions in Venezuela, Black farmers and the government shutdown todayDecember 5, 2025
