WURD Radio Over 190 years ago, on a sweltering August evening in 1834, Philadelphia erupted in an episode of violence that would forever shape the history of Black Philadelphia—a riot sparked by a ...

H.E. Amani Abou-Zeid, Egyptian, was elected the new Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy of the African Union Commission. H.E. Abou-Zeid was an international development lead expert who has been ...

Last year, on June 14, representatives from the Underground Railroad Consortium of New York State (URCNYS) held a public ...

A new exhibit at the Plano African American Museum focuses on the women who organized the Underground Railroad to Mexico, a ...

It now contains over 4,500 ads placed in newspapers by formerly enslaved people who hoped to find family members separated by ...

Nantes, a city that prospered from maritime trade but for more than a century it was also France’s largest slave-trading port. Today the city is acknowledging this with one of Europe’s most ...

The number of Americans identifying as LGBTQ+ continued to rise, according to the latest Gallup poll. In 2024, 9.3% of U.S. adults identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or something ...

The 4 Nations Face-Off was a huge success on and off the ice. While the United States fell short in the championship game against Canada, the final game averaged 9.3 million viewers in the United ...

Most of President Donald Trump’s signature policies are unpopular with Americans, according to recent polls, including a Washington Post-Ipsos survey that found 57% believe Trump has exceeded ...

In the dry, arid Ethiopian desert land, a mysterious shift -- barely noticed by the human civilization that populates the area -- has been occurring since 2005. A new ocean is being created in ...

Kamala Harris faced strong opposition from the community over the war in Gaza. While President Donald Trump's comments about wanting to "clean out" Gaza and forcibly displace its nearly 2 million ...