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: Remembering the Million Man March, legacy of the Harlem Renaissance, Columbus Day vs. Indigenous Peoples’ Day todayOctober 17, 2025
insert_link 1 Featured This week on WURD: National Guard in Chicago, exhausted while Black, the resilience of Black women todayOctober 10, 2025 1
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 Featured This week on WURD: NJ city’s slavery reenactment request, activism through politics, the spiritual successor to “Love Jones” todaySeptember 26, 2025
insert_link Featured This week on WURD: Actress Starletta DuPois, Michael Coard’s fight to protect Philadelphia’s Black history, DA Larry Krasner on the National Guard todaySeptember 19, 2025
insert_link Featured This week on WURD: Pulitzer Prize winner Trymaine Lee, remembering 9/11, Charlie Kirk murder todaySeptember 12, 2025
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: Actor Richard Lawson, prostate cancer awareness, 20 years after Hurricane Katrina todayAugust 29, 2025
insert_link Featured This week on WURD: Comedian Luenell, more SEPTA woes, deadly explosion at PA steel plant todayAugust 22, 2025
