This week on WURD 9.12.25

Taylor Frazier McCollum is an environmental advocate. She joins the show to talk  about the planned data center campus in Landover, MD. The largest on the East Coast. This $5 billion project promises jobs and tax revenue, but also massive energy demands and environmental strain. Local communities are not here for economic gains against long-term consequences like increased utility costs, water usage, and neighborhood impact.

Taylor Frazier McCollum | ecoWURD Magazine w/ P.O.C. - 9.5.25

Dr. Roger A. Mitchell Jr. is the 126th president of the National Medical Association: the largest and oldest organization representing the interests of Black physicians and their patients in the United States.

Dr. Mitchell Jr. joins the show to speak on the various health issues plaguing Black Americans, especially in regard to what we eat,  how that can lead to various illnesses, and his thoughts on Florida’s plan to drop school vaccine mandates.

Dr. Roger A. Mitchell Jr. | The Midday Break Room w/ Tiffany Bacon - 9.9.25

Yolo Akili Robinson joins the show. He is the Executive Director for The Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective (BEAM). On the anniversary of 9/11, our theme is "We Will Never Forget."  Yolo talks to us about what does collective healing look like on days like this, when grief, memory, and trauma are so heavy in the air?

Yolo Akili Robinson 9.11.25 Soulful Sunrise w/ Karen Taylor Bass

 Lawyer and philosophy Professor Dr. Tim Golden joins the show. He talks to us about the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Is politics to blame? If not, what is? And what does it all mean for Black people?

Tim Golden - 9.11.25 Wake Up With WURD w/ Solomon Jones

Trymaine Lee is a Pulitzer Prize and Emmy award winning journalist, MSNBC contributor and the host of the “Into America” podcast where he covers the intersection of Blackness, power, and politics. Mr. Lee is also a contributing author to the “1619 Project”. 

He joined Dr. Peterson to discuss his debut book “A Thousand Ways To Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America”. 

Trymaine Lee - Evening WURDs 9.11.25

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