WURD's 2nd ecoWURD Environmental Justice Summit
WURD Is The Only Black-Owned Media Outlet in the U.S. with a Dedicated Environmental Justice Platform
an ecoWURD | WURD feature
(PHILADELPHIA, PA) – WURD Radio (96.1FM / 900AM / WURDRadio.com / WURDTV / WURDApp), the only African American owned and operated talk radio station in Pennsylvania, and one of a few in the country, will host its second day-long ecoWURD Environmental Justice Summit on Monday, October 12th in honor of Indigenous People’s Day 2020. This event presents an ambitious mix of LIVE broadcast panels on both its LIVE radio and digital platforms. It is the culmination of extensive journalism from WURD’s ecoWURD.com project which explores the environment at the intersection of race, class, health and income in Philadelphia and beyond.
The ecoWURD Environmental Justice Summit will begin at 10am ET on WURD at 96.1FM and 900AM in Philadelphia, while LIVE streamed to the nation and to the world through wurdradio.com, via the WURD app and WURD TV at facebook.com/forWURD and youtube.com/onwurd. In recognition of Indigenous People’s Day, WURD will explore topics exploring Black and Indigenous rights, income, and the environment. This virtual event will feature movers and shakers in the movement such as Majora Carter, Radmilla Cody, Dr. Sharelle Barber, Maurice Sampson, From the Source Reporting Collaborative, The Oro Family, activists, artists, Philadelphia-area elected officials and other thought leaders.
Listeners and viewers will also have an opportunity to join or renew their forWURD membership for a free copy of this month's #BlackWURDs Book Club selection: A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind by Harriet A. Washington.
The ecoWURD Environmental Justice Summit is produced in collaboration with Bartram's Garden and the From the Source Reporting Collaborative and is supported by PECO, The Alliance for Watershed Education, The Lenfest Institute and William Penn Foundation.
WHO: WURD Radio / ecoWURD.com
WHAT: ecoWURD all day Environmental Justice Summit
WHEN: Monday, October 12, 2020 | Live Broadcast: 10:00AM - 9:00PM EST |
WHERE: Wherever WURD is broadcast and LIVE streamed on 96.1FM / 900AM (Philly), wurdradio.com, WURD TV and WURD app
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ABOUT WURD …
WURD (96.1FM | 900AM | @onwurd | wurdradio.com | WURD App) is the only African American owned talk radio station in Pennsylvania, and one of only three in the country. Since 2003, WURD has served as the heartbeat and pulse of Philadelphia’s Black community, providing an interactive format to educate, enlighten and empower. More information is found at http://wurdradio.com or by following @onWURD on Twitter and Instagram. Also on Facebook at ForWURD.
ABOUT ECOWURD …
#ecoWURD - housed at ecoWURD.com - is a multimedia environmental justice journalism initiative examining Black communities struggling at the intersection of race, income & the environment. ecoWURD is a production of WURD Digital. Reporting and conversations on ecoWURD center on the manifestation of unequal green space. It entails a deeper examination of Black life in the context of its inextricable link to the surrounding environment. Philadelphia serves as a prime example of this link, as it remains the poorest big city in the United States, a majority-Black urban center of 1.6 million people where African American residents are perpetually battling broader issues of air quality, water quality, residential displacement, pollution, climate change and toxicity. These challenges both instigate and aggravate stubborn racial and socioeconomic disparities. The mission of ecoWURD is to report on how environmental issues uniquely impact Black communities across the nation.