Put Pauli on stamps and money! (Image via Amazon Prime Video) Pauli Murray is a person who needs some introduction ... but shouldn't.
In Julie Cohen and Betsy West's riveting documentary My Name Is Pauli Murray, a case is convincingly made for considering Murray to be a monumental part of American history, an RBG before RBG (acknowledged in the film by the late SCOTUS justice as such) and an MLK Jr.
before MLK Jr. It arrives fortuitously at at time when the American right would like to ban so-called critical race theory as a way of stopping all conversation about America's racist past and present, which is a genius way to ensure a racist future.