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insert_link 2 4 Featured This week on WURD: Philly teachers fight for more, Black federal workers under threat, the story behind Gladys Knight and the Pips todayJuly 10, 2025 4 2
insert_link ICYMI Steps You Can Take to Decrease Breast Cancer Plus: January 6 Hearing Update todayOctober 24, 2022
insert_link ICYMI Jackson, Mississippi, is the latest Black community facing an unprecedented water crisis todaySeptember 14, 2022
insert_link ICYMI A city councilman resigns, and Philadelphia’s political landscape shifts todayAugust 23, 2022
insert_link ICYMI More than a century ago, White neighbors forced a Black couple off a beach they owned. Here’s the latest on Bruce’s Beach. todayJuly 12, 2022
insert_link 2 ICYMI These brothers spent 28 years locked up for a crime they didn’t commit todayMarch 14, 2022 2
insert_link ICYMI Making Black history in space, plus lessons from Dr. Haki Madhubuti todayMarch 7, 2022
