Dr. Terence Keel, UCLA professor of Human Biology and Society and author of The Coroner’s Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence, joined Wake Up With WURD with Solomon Jones to examine the country’s broken system for tracking deaths in police custody. He outlined how coroners and medical examiners often obscure or misclassify police-involved deaths — a crisis that hides the true scale of state violence and affects Black, Latino, Indigenous, and poor white communities nationwide.

Minority Leader Kendra Brooks, Philadelphia City Councilmember At-Large, joined ecoWURD Magazine with P.O.C. to address the rise in ICE activity across city neighborhoods and the heightened fear facing immigrant families. Brooks also explained City Council’s newly passed resolution declaring that abortion rights are human rights, placing Philadelphia firmly among cities defending reproductive freedom amid escalating national rollbacks.

Dr. Kayla Elliott, director of Workforce Policy at The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, joined Evening WURDs with Dr. James Peterson to break down the Joint Center’s work as America’s Black think tank. She discussed how federal workforce and education policy shape economic mobility for Black communities — from college affordability to job pipelines — and examined the destabilizing impact of the Trump administration’s policy changes at the U.S. Department of Education.

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