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The Education Conversation We Should Be Having
The Office in the "Post-Pandemic" Era
The Fight for Fugitive Humanity
Build Back Better Died. So, What's Next?
It's Okay to Push Climate Politics When Disasters Strike
Don't Underestimate the Role of Violent Crime in 2022
How Kamala Transforms Vice President Harris
A Government Shutdown's Worst Casualty: Confidence
Want to Help HBCUs? Help Pass Build Back Better
The Moneyball Approach to Metropolitan Growth
The Rittenhouse Verdict is a Domestic Terror Alert
Short-Changed Black Colleges Fight For Equal Funding
Selling Black People on The Infrastructure Act ... as It Goes State & Local
Who Does the Public Really Blame for Inflation?
Need Creative Communications? Learn More About B|E Strategy ....
The Federal Poverty Line is Off
Will the "Critical Race Theory" Fight Lead to the End of Hip Hop?
How Will Government Spend the Infrastructure Money?
First "CRT" ... & Then Hip Hop Will Be Next
Unpacking "Critical Race Theory"
A Moment to Make HBCUs & Others Whole
We Have an Executive Order, Now What?
Why Do Democrats Try to Lose Elections?
Black Moms Need Cleaner & Safer Environments
Did You Forget We Have a Housing Crisis?
Clean Energy Would Actually Lower Your Household Energy Bill
Mass Transit Could Be Hotter Than This
How "Build Back Better" Could Have Been Sold ... Better
$3.5 Trillion is Actually Cheap
ecoWURD Summit: Nature Can Fix a Violence Crisis
Republicans Like to Defund the Government & the Economy
Inside Higher Ed: "Biden’s Promise to HBCUs Unfulfilled by Congress"
Where is the Political Zero Tolerance for Black Lives Not Mattering?
Gun Violence in America is Nothing New
How Those New iPhones Keep Us Broke
WATCH: The Value of HBCUs in the 21st Century
Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated States (... of America)
The Value of HBCUs in the 21st Century
(Un)Happy End of Emergency Unemployment Benefits Day
What's Next For American Urban Development?
We Can't Keep Ignoring Our Homeless Crisis
The Afghanistan Obsession Briefly Explained
Understanding the "Cryptoverse"
131 Years Later: 1890 Land Grant HBCUs Survive & Thrive
As Ida Hits, We're Still Ignoring Climate Crisis
Evictions & The Rental Assistance Awareness Gap
H.R. 4 Passed the House ... So What?
WATCH: Reparations as the End of Racism
WATCH: Unpacking "Critical Race Theory"
No One Could Ever Tame Afghanistan, Anyway
Fixing Healthcare For Low-Income Households
Congress Takes Way Too Much Recess
The Correlation Between a Surging Pandemic & The Infodemic
What Do Cities Do About New Growth?
Forcing Our Way Into The Space Debate
Do We Need a More Forceful Vaxx Chat?
The Vaccine Access & Hesitancy Talk is Really Complicated
1890 Universities Community Mourns the Passing of Dr. Fred Humphries, Sr.
#VaxxChat: How Do We Have a Better Conversation?
Four Ways to Avoid a New Wave of Mass Incarceration
The Remarkable "Critical Race Theory" Response of General Milley
(WATCH) Reparations: What Would That Look Like?
Did Making "Juneteenth" a Law Open Up a New Door to Reparations?
Reparations: What Would That Look Like?
Agro-HBCU Leaders Address Congress This Week
Tackling Food Insecurity? Fund Agro-HBCUs
You Can't Have a Remote Work Debate Without Remote Work Research
What's Happening in West Virginia?
Finding More Funding for Agriculture HBCUs
WATCH TODAY: Tracing Family History
In Search of a Manchin Workaround
We Need More Black People in Agriculture
The "Republicans" Are Trying to End Racism
How Much Does California Hate Its Black & Brown Students? Ask Its State Legislature
How Democrats Should Be Approaching 2022
Are We Going to Talk About Homelessness?
Tricky Polling & Campaign Contributions Explaining U.S. Response to Israel
It's Not a "Labor Shortage" - It's a Wage Shortage
Black Farmers: Land, Wealth, Food ... & Racism
Black to School? Reimagining K-12 Education
Congress Introduces HBCU Infrastructure Bill
WATCH: 2021 Philadelphia District Attorney Candidates Debate
Black Farmers: a Struggle for Relief ... and a Future
Finding Safety for Pregnant Black Mothers
Five Signs That We're Still In The Woods
WURD Hosts Major Philadelphia District Attorney Candidates Debate on May 12th
Yeah, Nah: Liz Cheney Is Not Your Hero
Back To School? Re-Imagining K-12
When Pandemic Ends, Pre-Pandemic Education Should End With It
Tim Scott's Rather Effective Political Trap
To End Racial Discrimination, We Must Also End Economic Discrimination
Tax Revenue: Perception vs. Ideal (vs. Reality)
Takes On Biden's First Speech Before Congress
We Can't Turn The Census Clock Back
Are Mass Shootings An American Epidemic?
HBCUs Are The Pathway to Next Generation Prosperity
Cannabis Equity & BIPOC Business
Gerrymandering as Non-White Containment Tool
Biden's Infrastructure Bill is Actually Mad Cheap
3 Things We Could Do Right Now To Stop Gun Violence ...
Lowering Chauvin Trial Expectations
Confidence in State & Fed Response Improves
What Do We Do When a Nuclear Bomb is Dropped on Voting Rights?
Biden's Education Policy Should Be Equitable ... Cindy Marten Isn't
Why You Should Care About Anti-Asian Hate, Too
REGISTER: Voting Rights Threat Assessment
#Texture w/ Ellison & Groff, ep.25
But, What About an Assault Weapons Ban?
Voting Rights Threat Assessment: Georgia
A Discussion w/ DNC Chair Jaime Harrison
Leading the Next Generation of Women in a Global Economy
A Guide to the $1.9 Trillion Recovery Bill
#Texture w/ Ellison & Groff, ep. 24
The Inequities in Education Funding
Rise of a New COVID Confederacy
One Thing Holding Democrats Back on Minimum Wage
Our "Social Justice" Moment Missed a Spot: Education
Public Health vs. Economic Concerns
The Life Cycle of Black Urban Neighborhoods
#Texture w/Ellison & Groff, ep22
Biden's Immigration Policy as Voter Enfranchisement
Old School Fossil Fuel Economy vs. New School Clean Energy Economy
Looking Ahead to 2022 (Senate Map)
Reopen Schools? Boycott Them, Instead
Virtual HBCU Campus Tours This Week
#Texture w/Ellison & Groff, ep 20
Most Americans Think COVID Response Will Get Better Under Biden (... But Many Uncertain)
TODAY: Our Environmental Future
When Do We Reach Full Education Equity?
#Texture w/ Ellison & Groff, ep 19
The Stock Game Is Not a BIPOC Revolution
Incitement to Violence is Rarely Explicit
What's Suddenly Wrong With Putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill?
Who's Running the Senate, Anyway?
#Texture w/ Ellison & Groff, ep18
Could COVID-19 Actually Save Democracy? ... (Or Just Make States More Defiant?)
That Other Crisis We're Ignoring: Education
What Should Biden Do? Start, Simply, With Good Governance
Want Vaccine? Move to a White State
We Don't Need a "Minimum Wage." We Need a "Livable Wage"
#Texture w/ Ellison & Groff, ep17
Keep Eyes on State Legislatures - Voter Suppression Didn't Go Anywhere
Republicans Show No Signs of Getting It
2/3 of the Earth's Land is About to Lose Water
Defund the Police? Purge Them, Instead
WATCH #Texture w/ Ellison & Groff, ep17
The Calculus of Black Housing Decisions