Pauli Murray in the News

June 9, 2022 - Deadline

Peabody Awards: The Complete List of 2022 Winners by Patrick Hipes

May 6, 2022 - Raleigh News & Observer

Durham Names New School for Two: A Civil Rights Icon and a Pioneering Local Educator by Mark Schultz

March 31, 2022 - CBS News

Civil Rights Pioneer Pauli Murray Getting Increased Recognition by Dave Carlin

March 10, 2022 - American Civil Liberties Union

Before Ketanji Brown Jackson Came Pauli Murray’s Letter to Nixon by Ria Tabacco Mar

January 27, 2022 - The Washington Post

Pauli Murray applied to be a Supreme Court justice in 1971. 50 years later, a Black woman could make history. by Anna Branigin

January 5, 2022 - Blavity News

Why These Unsung 'Righteous Troublemakers,' From Pauli Murray To Claudette Colvin, Deserve Their Flowers by Rev. Al Sharpton

October 22, 2021 - The Raleigh News & Observer

Pauli Murray, Betty Massenburg, or something else? Help Durham name its new school. by Penelope Blackwell

October 20, 2021 - Slate

Pronouns and Poppers: A Queer History Party hosted by J. Bryan Lowder and Christina Cauterucci

October 20, 2021 - Bay Area Reporter

LGBTQ+ History Month: Pauli Murray was an Architect of History by Victoria A. Brownworth

October 8, 2021 - IndieWire

How Pauli Murray's Trailblazing Advocacy Shaped the World We Know Today

October 4, 2021 - Reckon South

Queer History is Black History, too by Jonece Starr Dunigan

October 4, 2021 - Sojourners

Pauli Murray - Priest, Lawyer, Organizer - Refused to Be Diminutive by Alicia T. Crosby

October 3, 2021 - The Duke Chronicle

Q&A: Pauli Murray Center on new documentary 'My Name is Pauli Murray' by Kerry Rork

September 29, 2021 - Facing South

Pauli Murray Documentary shines light on an overlooked trailblazer by Elisha Brown

September 29, 2021 - Hyperallergic

A New Documentary Explores the Life of Unheralded Civil Rights Activist Pauli Murray by Bedatri D. Choudhury

September 29, 2021 - The Sacramento Observer

New documentary unveils astounding accomplishments of little known civil rights activist, feminist, and ordained priest by Sandra Varno

September 28, 2021 - ABC7

Documentary directors discuss Pauli Murray's 1940's desegregation efforts by Hosea Sanders & Marsha Jordan

September 27, 2021 - The Washington Blade

Civil rights film fest celebrates transmasculine activist by Philip Van Slooten

September 23, 2021 - The Grio

Talleah Bridges-McMahon and Julie Cohen discuss 'My Name is Pauli Murray' on Acting Up by Cortney Wills

September 25, 2021 - The Raleigh News & Observer

Durham director preserves Pauli Murray's legacy of human rights by Penelope Blackwell

September 23, 2021 - Roll Call

My Name is Pauli Murray' - portrait of an activist as a major influence by Jason Dick

September 17, 2021 - The Los Angeles Times

Pauli Murray is their name. Why you need to know this civil rights icon by Tre’vell Anderson

September 16, 2021 - The New York Times

My Name is Pauli Murray Review: Ahead of the Times by Beatric Loayza

September 15, 2021 - The New York Times

Pauli Murray Should be a Household Name. A New Film Shows Why. by Melena Ryzik

September 15, 2021 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Review: New Pauli Murray documentary gives civil rights giant her due by David Lewis

September 15, 2021 - The Washington Post

My Name is Pauli Murray is a revelatory portrait of the most pioneering legal activist you never heard of by Ann Hornaday

September 14, 2021 - The Philadelphia Tribune

Meet Pauli Murray, the Civil Rights activist you've never heard of by Kathia Woods

September 11, 2021 - The Washington Post

Pauli Murray should have been a civil rights icon. Now Murray's moment has finally come. by Kelsey Ables

September 10, 2021 - The Durham Herald Sun

My Name is Pauli Murray documentary to screen before Amazon by Penelope Blackwell

September 7, 2021 - PR Underground

In the Loop Program of Success Partners with KIDS! First Film Festival by Staff

September 7, 2021 - IndieWire

IndieWire, International Documentary Association Partner for Annual Awards Season Screening Series by Ryan Lattanzio

September 3, 2021 - The Wall Street Journal

Five Best: On Resistance by Jennifer Chiavrini

August 31, 2021 - Slate

Who Was Pauli Murray? by Dahlia Lithwick

August 30, 2021 - The Advocate

My Name is Pauli Murray Highlights a Great Nonbinary Trailblazer by Rachel Shatto

August 27, 2021 - 303 Magazine

CinemaQ Film Festival Returns For a Celebration of Queer Film by Jessica Engen

August 26, 2021 - The Aspen Times

Eyes of Tammy Faye' to open Aspen Filmfest by Andrew Travers

August 23, 2021 - Looper

My Name is Pauli Murray Release Date, Cast and Plot- What We Know So Far by Looper Staff

July 7, 2021 - WUNC

The Black Scholar Who Took on UNC Before Nikole Hannah-Jones by Leoneda Inge & Lindsay Foster Thomas

July 5, 2021 - KUTV

Queer Film Festival Damn These Heels Returns with in-person and online screenings by Ryan Painter

July 1, 2021 - Collider

First 'My Name Is Pauli Murray' Trailer Reveals the Pioneering Activist and Attorney by Ashley Bubp

June 30, 2021 - Daily Utah Chronicle

‘Damn These Heels’ LGBTQ+ Film Festival Gives Platform to Unique Voices by Heather Graham

June 28, 2021 - Ms.

Black Women in Support of the Equal Rights Amendment: “A Victory Over Right-Wing Racist Sexism” by Carrie N. Baker

June 19, 2021 - Truthout

Black Womanist Theology Offers Hope in the Face of White Supremacy by George Yancy

June 19, 2021 - The Washington Post

AFI Docs shows us where the histories are buried, and why that matters more than ever by Ann Hornaday

June 18, 2021 - Sea Coast Online

Paradis: Queer liberation and Black liberation are inseparable by Crystal Paradis

June 17, 2021 - The Chicago Defender

The Story of Pauli Murray. Where Civil Rights, Gender Equality and Feminism Intersect by Danielle Sanders

June 16, 2021 - Third Coast Review

Preview: Chicago’s Documentary Film Festival DOC10 Returns with a Weekend of Must-See Non-Fiction Films by Staff

June 9, 2021 - Chapelboro

Right as Rain: Culture Shifters in Our Community by Rain Bennett

June 8, 2021 - Chalkbeat

New York City schools integrate LGBTQ stories in social studies curriculum by Pooja Salhotra

June 7, 2021 - Broadway World

PUT A WOMAN ON A PEDESTAL Announces Final Evening Of Plays by Chloe Rabinowitz

June 5, 2021 - Jacobin

Despite Everything, Queer Leftists Survived by Scott W. Stern

June 3, 2021 - Entertainment Weekly

Your Pride 2021 Must List: 16 LGBTQ projects to watch and read in June and beyond by David Canfield, Gerrad Hall and Seija Rankin

June 3, 2021 - Tampa Bay Times

Queer In Color: A new film festival celebrates LGBTQ+ people of color by Kelly A. Stefani

May 27, 2021 - Aspen Daily News

Aspen Film announces slew of upcoming documentaries by Aspen Daily News Staff Reports

May 21, 2021 - BU Today

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey Invokes Thurgood Marshall, Pauli Murray, Ibram Kendi in Addressing LAW Convocation by Sara Rimer

May 6, 2021 - INDY Week

A Look at the Lineup of This Year's Full Frame Documentary Film Festival by Sarah Edwards

April 23, 2021 - Hyde Park Herald

St. Paul & the Redeemer launching ministry fellowship program for LGBTQ young adults by Aaron Gettinger

April 23, 2021 - Episcopal News Service

Atlanta priest takes her place at the ‘well’ of state politics by Michelle Hiskey

April 7, 2021 - INDY Week

As the Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray Preached, We Can Strive to Meet Discrimination against LGBTQ+ People with Revolutionary Love by Jesse Huddleston

March 30, 2021 - The Washington Post

Four Confederate statues once stood as Baltimore landmarks. Now their pedestals stand ready to send new messages by Jonathan M. Pitts

March 29, 2021 - Daily Tar Heel

I Was Still Singing' offers digital look at Black women's history in Chapel Hill by Niharika Vattikonda

March 18, 2021 - Sojourners

If We Are Equal Before God, We Must Be Equal Before the State by Allyson McKinney Timm

March 9, 2021 - WUNC

How Pauli Murray Wrote The "Bible" Of Civil Rights Law by Leoneda Inge

March 9, 2021 - Chapelboro

Orange County Names 2021 Recipients of Pauli Murray Awards by Dair McNinch

March 8, 2021 - Insider

10 powerful figures from the women's liberation movement you might not know by Frank Olito

March 8, 2021 - Variety

International Women’s Day: Female-Focused Content That Will Captivate in 2021 by Matt Donnelly and Danielle Turchiano

March 2, 2021 - NBC

7 unsung heroines who changed the course of history by Halley Bondy

March 1, 2021 - Southern Poverty Law Center

Women’s History Month: Just as in the civil rights movement, Black women are leading the way in today’s social justice activism by Tafeni English

February 27, 2021 - Hickory Record

Column: Celebrating faithful women of color by the Rev. Christy Lohr Sapp

February 25, 2021 - Deadline

Amazon Picks Up Global Rights To Participant Documentary ‘My Name Is Pauli Murray’ From ‘RBG’ Filmmakers by Anthony D'Alessandro

February 24, 2021 - INDY Week

Dreams Held Fast: A Timeline of Black History in the Triangle by Sara Pequeno and Thomasi McDonald

February 22, 2021 - Puttylike

Pauli Murray: A Kick Down Barriers Kind of Life by Malika Ali Harding

February 22, 2021 - The Raleigh News & Observer

10 NC Black history lessons you likely weren’t taught in school (but should have been) by Brooke Cain and Martha Quillin

February 17, 2021 - UVA School of Law

Celebrating Black Lawyers by Mary Wood

February 14, 2021 - Ms.

Sundance 2021: Documentary “My Name is Pauli Murray” Illuminates the Life of Visionary Feminist Lawyer by Aviva Dove-Viebahn

February 10, 2021 - The Film Stage

Sundance Review: A Black Trans Legend Gets the Spotlight in My Name is Pauli Murray by Shayne Warner

February 5, 2021 - WUNC

Pauli the Podcast

February 4, 2021 - Rabble

'Who is Pauli Murray?' honours life of civil rights icon by Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan

February 4, 2021 - Democracy Now!

Pauli Murray and Black Trans Rights Shine at Sundance by Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan

February 3, 2021 - John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute

New Documentary Draws Attention to Pauli Murray’s Legacy by Sarah Rogers

February 3, 2021 - Cleveland

‘RBG’ directors shed light on another legal trailblazer

February 3, 2021 - The Daily Beast

The Black, Queer, Gender-Nonbinary Lawyer Who Inspired RBG by Kevin Fallon

February 2, 2021 - IndieWire

‘My Name Is Pauli Murray’ Review: Trailblazing Civil Rights Disruptor Gets Overdue Tribute by Jude Dry

January 31, 2021 - Hollywood Reporter

'My Name Is Pauli Murray': Film Review | Sundance 2021 by Inkoo Kang

January 29, 2021 - Scalawag

Pauli Murray: Black Revolutionary by Dolores Chandler

January 29, 2021 - Democracy Now!

My Name Is Pauli Murray: New Film on Black Queer Legal Pioneer Who Inspired RBG & Thurgood Marshall by Amy Goodman

January 15, 2021 - Oprah Magazine

25 Civil Rights Leaders of Past and Present by McKenzie Jean-Philippe

January 8, 2021 - Daily Advance

An Open Letter for These Times

2020 - KPFA Letters and Politics

The Life of Pauli Murray

November 18, 2020 - Oak Church

A Ministry of Stirring the Pot

October 27, 2020 - The Hour

Pauli Murray, Anti-Blackness, and the Episcopal Church

October 23, 2020 - Pepperdine University

Promised Land by Juan Hugues

October 22, 2020 - Black History Bootcamp

Day 13: Black History Bootcamp

October 16, 2020 - TIME

In Previously Unseen Interview, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Shares How Legal Pioneer Pauli Murray Shaped Her Work on Sex Discrimination by Olivia B. Waxman

September 29, 2020 - The Guardian

Our Love is Racial: Why Trans Activists Lead the Way in Protest Movements by Sam Levin

September 26, 2020 - Bangor Daily News

Ruth Bader Ginsburg gives us the inspiration to forge ahead in fight for equality

September 25, 2020 - RCMWS

Remembering RBG and Her Connection to Pauli Murray by Marya McNeish

September 22, 2020 - Christian Century

RBG Saw the Biblical Deborah as a Role Model by Serene Jones

September 21, 2020 - The New York Times

Amid the Outpouring for Ginsburg, a Hint of Backlash by Jennifer Schuesseler

September 20, 2020 - Boston University

POV: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Fought Tirelessly for What She Believed Was Right by Angela Onwuachi-Willig

September 19, 2020 - Meridian Star

BOOK REVIEW: A life lived in service of equality by Terri Schlichenmeyer

September 11, 2020 - Jacobin Magazine

Pauli Murray Was a Civil Rights Trailblazer by Troy R. Saxby

June 26, 2020— Forbes

Meet The Forgotten Woman Who Forever Changed The Lives Of LGBTQ+ Workers by Leah Rosenbaum and Brianne Garrett

June 24, 2020 — ACLU

Pauli Murray’s Indelible Mark On The Fight For Equal Rights by Philippa Strum

June 24, 2020 — The Atlantic Magazine

The Trans Future I Never Dreamed Of by Chase Strangio

June 18, 2020 — The Hill

The LGBTQ community scores a win this week, but the fight isn't over by Alphonso David, Opinion Contributor

June 17, 2020— Newsweek

Reading Bostock Through a Racial Justice Lens by Michele Goodwin

June 16, 2020 — The New Republic

A Glimpse of a Trans Future: A historic Supreme Court ruling arrives in the middle of an uprising for Black trans lives by Melissa Girl Grant

June 15, 2020 — Intelligencer

The Supreme Court’s Unlikely by Irin Carmon