Devin Morgan is the co-founder and CEO of Reliant Polygraph Services, a modern polygraph firm focused on making lie detection more accessible, educational, and human-centered. She also serves as Director of the Maryland Polygraph Association and lectures at academic institutions, bringing her expertise directly to students and professionals.

Devin joins the show to further discuss her work as an experienced deception detection expert in the government, and to also talk about long-held misconceptions about how and why polygraphs are used.

Ebony Russ is a Human Resource Business Partner with 20 years of experience in HR and management. She also serves as an Adjunct Professor, teaching Human Resource Management and Training & Development. Drawing from firsthand experience navigating corporate culture, Ebony helps professionals—from entry-level employees to executives—understand performance, perception, and opportunity. She is the author of Tea, Tactics, and Tenacity, a guide inspired by the lessons she learned and now shares to empower others.

Ebony joins the show to further discuss how Black workers can navigate working in corporate America. She also spoke on the importance of knowing your worth, setting boundaries, emotional intelligence, and more.

Ben Tinsley is a French teacher based in Colombia, South America. A teacher of almost 2 decades and a lifelong student, Ben has dedicated his professional and personal life to the pursuit of substantive diversity, equity, and belonging in education. In the classroom, he has had the opportunity to work with teachers and schools around the world to develop curricula that center Black Indigenous Communities of Color and other historically marginalized peoples.

Ben joins the show as a part of Midday Break Room's brand new segment, "Love Languages", where a language expert will be teaching WURD listeners words and phrases of multiple languages. In this first segment, Ben teaches WURD listeners basic words and phrases from the French language.

Keisha Nicholas and Inella Ray of Lift Every Voice Philly discuss their recent success winning a wellness policy for students across the Philadelphia School District.

Trita Parsi, expert on Iranian-US relations and co-founder and executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft discusses the US/Israeli war on Iran, miscalculations by Trump, and the possibilities for ending the war.

New World View regular Dr. Umar Johnson of Fredrick Douglas Marcus Garvey Academy fame joins the program with Dr. Cassandra of the Black Lotus Holistic Health Collective. Black Lotus Holistic Health Collective is a space designed for African-American healers/practitioners to be centered in healing and better serve those in the black community. Dr. Cassandra discusses why she founded the collective and what the collective offers to the community.

David Barnes and co-host Sister Milele are joined by The Sankofa Artisins Guild, a group dedicated to providing artists, when possible, opportunities to their craft and to advacing their unique expressions through demonstrations, exhibits, workshops, and special events. Guild members express themselves via the needle arts like quilting, knitting, embroidery, sculpture, poetry mosaic art and curating. The join New World View to discuss their recent celebration of two exhibits presented by Creative Philadelphia’s Art in City Hall program: Counter Narratives - Resistance and Resilience, and My Skin is Black.

On this episode of Life and Tech with Tech Life Steph, TechLifeSteph explains it all regarding RAM, algorithms, cloud storage, VPNs, and the Internet of Things.

This episode of On The Record with Ernest Owens focuses on the host Ernest, speaking with callers about regional news along with Philadelphia's elected officials including city council representatives and Mayor Parker.

Linda Carroll-Pitts is a former member of the US Air Force, who experienced being on the Indian Ocean in Doha, Qatar, as the Iran strikes broke out, and then getting out of the Middle East 12 hours before it shut down. She joined the show to further unpack the context of this experience.