Podcasts about pauli murray project

Today we're bringing you the stories of two extraordinary African American women who accomplished great success despite many challenges in their lives. Sissieretta Jones was a pioneering opera singer, born in Portsmouth, VA, who died in poverty. We'll talk to Maureen Lee, author of "Sissieretta Jones: The Greatest Singer of her Race, 1868-1933." Pauli Murray broke many barriers as a civil rights activist, poet, lawyer and priest. Barbara Lau, director of the Pauli Murray Project, joins us to discuss her life and the work they're doing to carry on her legacy. Tune in at noon on 89.5 WHRV-FM.

On the next Another View, a history lesson about visionary activist, lawyer and Priest, Pauli Murray. Not familiar with her? Ms. Murray was the first African American to receive a doctorate of law from Yale University; first African American woman to be ordained an Episcopal Priest; a co-founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and a member of the LGBTQ community. And that's just the beginning! Barbara Lau is the Executive Director of the Pauli Murray Project which engages a diversity of residents to lift up the vision and legacy of Pauli Murray in order to tackle enduring inequities and injustice in our communities and in our nation. She will share the fascinating history of trailblazer Pauli Murray on the next Another View, Friday, June 16 at noon on 89.5 WHRV-FM or stream us live on this blog!

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. We'll also listen to part of a talk by internationally renowned feminist activist Selma James entitled “Caregiving: An Anti-Capitalist Perspective.” James is the author of Sex, Race and Class: The Perspective of Winning and founder of the international Wages for Housework campaign. The post Womens Magazine – March 28, 2016: Two Views of Sex Discrimination appeared first on KPFA.

Pauli Murray’s legacy of civil rights activism is often overlooked in history books. As the first female African-American Episcopal priest, she influenced everyone from Eleanor Roosevelt to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. On this episode, we talk with Barbara Lau, the director of the Pauli Murray Project, about Murray’s trailblazing religious achievements, her advocacy for racial and gender equality, and the work going on in our present time to continue her legacy.   For more information on the interfaith legacy of Pauli Murray check out this Sojourners article by Common Knowledge co-host Carr Harkrader.

Kathryn Libal is Associate Professor of Social Work and Associate Director of the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut. She earned her doctorate in anthropology at the University of Washington. She specializes in human rights, social welfare and the state and has published on women’s and children’s rights movements in Turkey and on international non-governmental organizations’ advocacy on behalf of Iraqi refugees. Her current scholarship focuses on the localization of human rights norms and practices in the United States, including a co-edited volume with Dr. Shareen Hertel on Human Rights in the United States: Beyond Exceptionalism (Cambridge, 2011) and a new project on the U.S. politics of food security and food assistance policy as a human rights concern. She has also co-authored, with Scott Harding, a short text on Human Rights Based Approaches to Community Practice in the United States(Springer, forthcoming) and is co-editor, with S. Megan Berthold, Rebecca Thomas, and Lynne Healy, of the forthcoming volume Advancing Human Rights in Social Work Education (Council on Social Work Education Press). Kathryn Libal gave a talk on “Bringing Economic and Social Rights ‘Home’: A View from an Interdisciplinary Human Rights Classroom” on Monday, September 22 at 4pm in the FHI Garage, Smith Warehouse, Bay 4. Her talk was sponsored by the Duke Human Rights Center@FHI, the Pauli Murray Project and Humanities Writ Large.

Barbara Lau is the director of Pauli Murray Project in the Duke Human Rights Center at Duke University's John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. She discusses the life and legacy of Pauli Murray, a writer, lawyer and priest. Learn more at http://www.paulimurrayproject.org.

This panel is presented by the Pauli Murray Project, an organization that seeks to build stronger community ties in Durham, North Carolina, through dialogue, education, storytelling centered on one of our city’s unsung heroes, the lawyer, activist, poet and priest, Pauli Murray. Presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and INternational Studies with support from the Franklin Humanities Institute.

John Hope Franklin Center Co-sponsored by the Duke Human Right Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute

Shooting the Bull is a weekly survey of events in and around Durham, North Carolina, hosted by Kevin Davis (BullCityRising.com) and Barry Ragin (DependableErection.blogspot.com)This week, Barbara Lau, Director of the Pauli Murray Project, talks about Pauli Murray's life and work, and what remembering it means for Durham today.