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Save Black Media: Borealis Philanthropy highlights Sara Lomax-Reese

July 28, 2020

In June, Sara Lomax-Reese told attendees as a keynote speaker of the annual Institute for Nonprofit News conference something that many people intuitively know, but don’t often crystalize into action: “Black media—and my expertise is in Black media—is an endangered species. If there's not a wholesale investment in reviving and supporting and providing resources to Black-owned media, [...]

Sara Lomax-Reese: ‘I believe in reparations’

July 27, 2020

This story is part of the SoJo Exchange of COVID-19 stories from the Solutions Journalism Network, a nonprofit organization dedicated to rigorous reporting about responses to social problems. Mikhael Simmonds & Sara Lomax-Reese | Solutions Journalism Sara Lomax-Reese, president and CEO of Philadelphia’s Black talk-radio station, on why to move forward we must first go [...]

Sara Lomax-Reese Interviews Dr. Beverly Toporowski

June 11, 2020

https://youtu.be/7pECWTl0mis WURD President Sara Lomax-Reese continues her conversations with Black healers and spiritual teachers. This week she sat down with Dr. Beverly Toporowski, a physician, energy healer and Awakening Mind Minister. Dr. Toporowski shared her thoughts on Covid-19, the protests and the spiritual dimensions of this moment. 

Sara Lomax-Reese Interviews Ruth King

June 5, 2020

https://youtu.be/is2gz3y9uOA A Conversation on "Healing Rage" Between WURD President, Sara Lomax-Reese, and Ruth King, Author of  "Healing Rage: Women Making Inner Peace Possible" and "Mindful of Race: Transforming Race from the Inside Out"

The Uprising: A Message from WURD President/CEO, Sara Lomax-Reese

June 5, 2020

By Sara Lomax-Reese Photos By Langston Reese “To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.” James Baldwin My son was tear gassed on Monday. On 676. In the so-called “City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection.” He sent me a scrambled [...]

WURD’s Sara Lomax-Reese Speaks With BBC

June 4, 2020

WURD President/CEO Sara Lomax-Reese speaks with the BBC about reactions to the protests against police violence in Philadelphia in the aftermath of the George Floyd killing. WURD Radio · WURD's Sara Lomax-Reese Speaks With BBC

More than 50 senior media executives convened at Poynter as part of the prestigious Media Transformation Challenge Program

February 10, 2020

The first participants to kick off Poynter’s programming in 2020 were an impressive bunch: the Fellows of the Media Transformation Challenge (MTC) Program: A Poynter Institute Executive Fellowship. These C-suite executives hailed from a blend of some of the world’s most prominent brands, including the Associated Press, the BBC, CNN, ESPN, Google News and NPR […]

WURD President & CEO Speaks: A Commentary from Sara Lomax Reese

August 17, 2017

Sweet Honey in the Rock sang, “We who believe in freedom cannot rest…until it comes…” And when will that be? I thought I saw a glimpse of a new American reality with the election of our first Black president. But now I’ve come to realize that this was not a breakthrough. It wasn’t a new […]

Art And Activism: Procession – The Art of Norman Lewis

December 16, 2015

We had a ball at our 2015 Holiday Party at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PafA), starting off the afternoon off with our powerful “Art and Activism” panel discussion in partnership with PafA’s new exhibit “Procession: The Art of Norman Lewis.

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