Top 5 Live-WURD Wednesday July 15 1. Whoopi Goldberg changes stance on Bill Cosby “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg [...]
Read moreWe have the right to protest police actions
When I used to teach journalism at Temple University, one of the things that I’d hand my [...]
Read moreNYPD cop killer does not represent us
On either side of the thin blue line that separates police from civilian, we all have the [...]
Read moreSolomon and son talk Ferguson on Nightline
In the wake of Ferguson, I worry about my son. Those words, from a Philadelphia Daily News [...]
Read moreI saw myself in the Eric Garner tragedy
THE IMAGE was horrific. An unarmed father of six, choked from behind by a police officer on [...]
Read moreFall back Sharpton. Time for the youth to lead
Thanks to the decisions by grand juries in Ferguson, Mo., and New York City, the Rev. Al [...]
Read moreCommissioner Charles Ramsey on Garner
On Thursday's Wake Up With WURD on 900 am WURD, Solomon Jones interviewed Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles [...]
Read moreEric Garner grand jury decision: Not again
Not again. Not another unarmed man killed by those whose salaries we pay. Not another death swept aside [...]
Read moreEric Garner: The new Rodney King
IN 1991, a large black man was beaten by four white police officers. The videotaped attack appeared to be [...]
Read moreGarner homicide: Will cops be charged?
THE NEW YORK City Medical Examiner has found that a police chokehold killed 43-year-old Eric Garner during an [...]
Read moreEric Garner died in a government drug war
On Thursday, July 17, drug-related violence claimed the life of a husband and father on a New [...]
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