CitizenCast

What can you say when there is nothing to say? A poem about listening and healing by writer, director and social activist Marc Erlbaum may grant insight.

Feeling alienated from your government at all levels? Larry Platt says maybe we should change our relationship to it.

WURD host Charles Ellison talks with Jacinda Arellano, Program Coordinator at the Philadelphia Lullaby Project, about the six-week program that pairs babies and their caregivers with local professional musicians to create intimate lullabies

Our Drexel class tried to rewrite Philly's constitution. Here are some of the best ways to change the relationship between the governed and the government.

A day after thugs waving confederate flags breached the Capitol, Sen. Gene Yaw provides a glimpse of courage and decency

Theater director David Bradley on how Trump's post-election enablers have thrust us into a real-life version of Arthur Miller's seminal work.

Getting skeptical Philadelphians to receive their Covid-19 vaccine will take trust-building—and ample creativity. These locals are on it.

Kenneth Bourne of Boys' Latin chats with WURD host Charles Ellison about how we approach the problem of low attendance in Philly schools.

After the worst year ever, Larry Platt offers three new year's resolutions for Mayor Jim Kenney. Hope springs eternal, right?

Philly high school teacher Maureen Boland pens an ode to something we miss most this year: faces and smelling and community in general

Local civic leader Richard Phillips says the coronavirus pandemic can be an opportunity to reinvent Philadelphia.

A compendium of the things we cared about in a super crappy year

Philly Superintendent William Hite has taken some hits lately. Does he have what it takes to manage—and tame—a $3.5 billion bureaucracy? The evidence is...conflicting.

TerraVida Holistic Centers and the Urban League team up to secure rights--and jobs--for people with previous cannabis-related convictions.

Josh Shapiro and his take-no-prisoners Supreme Court brief helped expose the fraud that is Donald Trump's claims of election rigging.

In the wake of a Black Lives Matter banner being vandalized in Center City, author and lecturer Lorene Cary reflects on the human capacity to see the sacredness in each other.

Boys' Latin social worker Kenneth Bourne II explains how boosting attendance in school means changing how we approach the problem.

Kenny Holdsman, President of Philadelphia Youth Basketball, and Aaron Crump chat with WURD host Charles Ellison about how basketball leagues can keep kids off the streets.

She was the best hope for reform in Philly politics. But now Martina White has sided with the crazies who deny the results of the election.

Six years in, the Bok has overcome neighborhood skeptics to become so much more than a mere space for Philadelphia's creative set.

Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff uncovers the fact that the racism that underpins outcomes in the pandemic, also drives the spread of the pandemic.

How Councilwoman Helen Gym and Mayor Jim Kenney are catching the allergy to reality.

"Beethoven in Beijing", a fascinating new documentary, recounts the Philadelphia Orchestra's role in breaking through Mao's Cultural Revolution and bringing classical music to the People's Republic of China.

We catch up with Philadelphia Youth Basketball, a local youth organization that uses hoops to keep kids off the streets and away from guns.

WURD host Charles Ellison chats with Ezechial Thurman, music technology teacher at Hill-Freedman World Academy, as well as David Bradley, producer at World Cafe Live about a new album by local students that has become one of the most poignant soundtracks of 2020.