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08/26/2023

Rick Ford and Therapist Robert Jenkins are live!

08/26/2023

Ahmet Tekelioglu is live!

08/26/2023

Michael Coard is live!

08/25/2023

Tune into The Envy McKee Show with Envy McKee!

08/25/2023

Tune in for Solutions with guest host Bishop Dwayne Royster!

08/25/2023

Tune in for Laborer's Live with Toni Staten and Kyle Anderson

08/25/2023

Tune in for Grounings with Brother Shomari

08/25/2023

Black Women's Leadership Council with guest host Vanessa Fields is live!

08/25/2023

ECOWURD with P.O.C is live.

08/25/2023

The Source w/ Andrea Lawful Sanders is Live!!

08/24/2023

Evening WURDS with Brother Shomari

08/24/2023

Audiences and performers alike can expect a premier comedy experience unlike any other at Punch Line Philly. The 300-seat venue features an outdoor patio, lobby bar and a full-service eclectic food and beverage selection offering local craft beers, boutique cocktails, wines by the glass, and more. https://bit.ly/3NrI0gX

08/24/2023

: To all of our WURD followers,

Global Citizen is thrilled to announce their 11th Annual Back-to-School Supplies Drive! This year’s drive will benefit the students of Rhoads Elementary School. Every year, as summer winds down, parents and guardians scramble to find the necessary supplies for a child’s success for the upcoming school year. For many families, this can be an overwhelming process of hunting for coupons and squeezing budgets.

For this, and many other reasons, Global Citizen has helped to deliver critical supplies to underserved communities for over a decade now. The drive provides an opportunity to come together as a community to provide all the necessary tools required for a quality education, for all students! This year, Radio is proud to partner with Global Citizen in this initiative– we will be taking donations at our drop-off location, the WURD Radio Station (1341 N. Delaware Ave, Ste. 300).

Once collected, all donations will head to Rhoads Elementary School in West Philadelphia. Donations will be accepted through to the END OF AUGUST! We hope you will join us in this collaborative effort to support our children through this season! ✏️📚✂️📓

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08/24/2023

Reality Check with Tonya Pendleton is live!!!

08/23/2023

On a sultry Monday night a half-world away from where her problems began, earned a gold medal at world championships in the biggest 100-meter race this side of the Olympics.

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https://thegrio.com/2023/08/22/underdog-shacarri-richardson-wins-world-title-in-100-meter-dash/

08/23/2023

08/23/2023

Reality Check with Tonya Pendleton is live.

08/22/2023

Three years after the nation's "racial reckoning," what has become of the groundswell of support pledged to BIPOC organizations from philanthropies? "There were some modest improvements in 2020," one expert said. "Although some funders are maintaining that commitment, some have gone back to business as usual." Read our series of articles exploring how the philanthropic world is -- or isn't -- upholding its promises to deliver greater support to Black and Brown mission-driven organizations. These articles are the final in the "Future of Work" series, a collaboration between WURD Radio's Lively-HOOD initiative and URL Media. Produced with support from the William Penn Foundation, the Lenfest Institute for Journalism and the Borealis Racial Equity in Journalism Fund, this reporting is part of the collaborative Broke in Philly: A collaborative reporting project on economic mobility, focusing on solutions to poverty and the city's push towards economic mobility.

From the article -- read the full story at: https://wurdworks.com/strings-attached-philanthropy-and-bipoc-organizations/

💡 Some BIPOC-led entities saw an increase in revenues. Michael Roberts, president and CEO of the First Nations Development Institute, said his organization, which serves the Native American community in reservations and rural areas, almost doubled its revenue. All the new donations that came into the institute had a caveat – they were one-time gifts. “This is a messed up way of giving money,” he said. “You are saying to us you don’t want to build a long-term relationship.”

💡 “One can argue that the philanthropic world is embedded in racial biases more than other sectors because of natural ways on how they amassed money,” said Darren Isom, a San Francisco partner at The Bridgespan Group. “The systems and processes it took to amass that money probably is the exact opposite of what it takes to give it away.”

💡 In the Reflecting Forward report funded by United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, Philadelphia Black leaders urged funders to embrace a “trust-based philosophy,” and reimagine grantmaking by supporting Black leaders and Black-serving orgs with general operating support and unrestricted gifts.

08/22/2023

Evening WURDs with Brother Shomari!

08/22/2023

: New job alert! We have a game-changing opportunity for a dynamic host in the evening drive slot at WURD Radio! We are seeking an experienced talk radio or podcast personality to host the show “Evening WURDs” live from 4-7 p.m., Monday-Thursday. This time slot presents an opportunity for someone with a powerful news sense who is also a fluid conversationalist and incisive interviewer to inform a highly engaged listenership in Philadelphia and beyond. Do you know someone who would be a great fit for this role? Share this post widely and tell anyone interested to apply on our job portal at jobs.wurdworks.com. 💼

LivelyHOOD is Radio’s initiative that connects people to jobs, entrepreneurship opportunities, and small business and financial literacy resources. Visit wurdworks.com. ✅

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08/22/2023

08/22/2023

08/22/2023

Reality Check with Tonya Pendleton is live

08/22/2023

The Source w/ Andrea Lawful Sanders is Live!

08/21/2023

Tune into Evening WURDs with Brother Shomari!

08/21/2023

Last Friday, Radio hosted its annual Founder’s Day celebration at the site of our future home, 3601 Haverford Ave, and it was a spectacular day from start to finish! There was so much to celebrate, and even more to be thankful for. We celebrated standing on the grounds of our future building and officially introducing ourselves to the Mantua community, we celebrated WURD’s 20th anniversary, we celebrated the legacy of Walter P. Lomax Jr., M.D., and we celebrated all of you— our loyal listeners, followers, members, and supporters, who make it all possible. Y’all are the reason why we continue to do the work that we do. ❤️🖤

Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate with us, thanks to every member of the WURD team for executing this all-hands-on-deck event, thank you to our speakers, vendors, performers, Community Impact Award recipients, our sponsors and our partners! 💚💛

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08/21/2023

Reality Check with Tonya Pendleton is live!

08/21/2023

The Source w/ Andrea Lawful Sanders live!

08/20/2023

Brother Shamari, Nashid Pop Pop Grow Somethin' Ali, and the WURD Warrios are live!

08/20/2023

Dr. Emeka is live!

08/20/2023

Dr. Paul is live!

08/20/2023

Dr. Alexander and Dr. King are live!

08/19/2023

Jihad Ahmad is live1

08/19/2023

Michael Coard is live1

08/19/2023

Chris Murray live now!

08/19/2023

CC live now!