Monday, February 6, 2017: Pauli Murray

In this segment we talk with Barbara Lau, director of the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice about the life and legacy of Pauli Murray, whose legal research led to a groundbreaking gender equality case argued in the Supreme Court by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Murray was close with Eleanor Roosevelt and one of the founders of the National Organization for Women.

This segment was also aired last March. Listen now. 31:16 min

Barbara Lau connects her commitment to justice with her belief in the power of community organizing. She is also the lead developer of the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice, a newly formed non-profit organization focused on transforming Murray’s childhood home into a center for history, education, the arts and social mobilization. Lau’s 20 years experience as a folklorist, curator, radio producer, and author includes producing To Buy the Sun, an original play about Pauli Murray; directing the Face Up: Telling Stories of Community Life community mural project; and curating two major exhibitions about Cambodian American traditions.



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Also on today's show:
Hidden Figures
When Abortion Was Illegal

Monday, March 28, 2016: Two Views of Sex Discrimination--Pauli Murray (1910-1985)

Pauli Murray, courtesy Wikimedia

We look at the life and legacy of Black feminist, legal scholar, civil rights activist, lesbian and Episcopal priest Pauli Murray. Murray cofounded the National Organization for Women and the Congress on Racial Equality and her research was credited by Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a groundbreaking sex discrimination case.  She was gender nonconforming and had long-term same-sex relationships, and was the first African American woman to be ordained as an Episcopal priest. Why is so little known about her?

We talk with Barbara Lau, director of the Pauli Murray Project at the Duke Human Rights Center of the Franklin Humanities Institute.

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Also on today's show:
Selma James

Kevin Vance Benefit

Featuring: Maurice Tani, Blame Sally, Stephen Kent and Eric & Suzy Thompson

WHEN: APRIL 9, 2016 @ DOORS 7 PM - SHOW 8 PM

WHERE: ASHKENAZ (1317 SAN PABLO AVE., BERKELEY)

July 7, 2014: Eleanor Roosevelt's lesbian lover

Terry Baum's play about Eleanor's lover, Hick

"I ache to hold you close." -Eleanor Roosevelt in a letter Lorena Hickock

Did you know Eleanor Roosevelt had a long-term lesbian relationship with journalist Lorena Hickock?  If you don't, you're in good company - despite being disclosed in a biography in the late seventies, it's one of the best kept secrets in recent history.  We talk with playwright and actor Terry Baum about her play, "Hick" which opens on Thursday at the Eureka Theater in San Francisco. For tickets go to crackpotcrones.com or call
800-838-3006.

Lorena Hickock was the AP jounalist who suggested that the press follow President Roosevelt's wife, Eleanor. So she ended up covering Eleanor and they fell in love. Evidence of this affair survives in 2336 letters that Eleanor wrote to Hick archived at the FDR library. Terry Baum weaves excerpts from the letters with a part of an earlier play about the affair written by Pat Bond.

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Also on today's show:
Idle No More and Sunflower Alliance: Bay Area Refinery Healing Walks

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