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A must-see doc about a must-know subject.
TWITTER RBG filmmakers Julie Cohen and Betsy West return with a documentary portrait of a forgotten but brilliant queer Black legal scholar who influenced Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Lawyer, scholar, priest and queer pioneer Pauli Murray is exactly the kind of historical personage for whom the phrase “I can’t believe I’ve never heard of them before!” exists. No less than Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg were indebted to Murray for their legal triumphs in overturning segregation and discrimination against women. “We literally live in an architecture of the world that Pauli Murray built,” says Professor Brittney Cooper in the new bio-doc