My Name Is Pauli Murray

[Available Oct. 1 on Amazon Prime Video.] Julie Cohen and Betsy West's fascinating, informative, eye-opening, insightful, inspirational, 91-minute documentary that examines the life and career of trailblazing, influential nonbinary, Black lawyer, activist, Episcopal priest, and poet Dr. Anna Pauli Murray who fought for social justice, equal and human rights, and against gender and sex discrimination and consists of letter excerpts, archival film footage and photographs, snippets of her papers from the Schlesinger library, and candid commentary by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Rutgers professor Brittany Cooper, grandniece Karen Rouse Ross, biographer Patricia Bell-Scott, author Rosalind Rosenberg who wrote Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray, writer and activist Raquel Willis, former Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice coordinator Dolores Chandler, friend Mary Norris, retired judge Inez Smith Reid, Yale graduate Eleanor Holmes Norton, attorney and founding NOW member Sonia Pressman Fuentes, ACLU attorney Chase Strangio, and former Brandeis students Ernest Meyers and Reggie Sapp.
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