Right as Rain: Culture Shifters in Our Community
From January 2018 until July 2020, my family and I lived half a block from the Pauli Murray Center for History & Social Justice (the former home of Pauli Murray) in Durham.
And I’m sad to say that beside knowing her name, I didn’t really know who Pauli Murray was or at least the extent in which she shifted our culture through her work.
That is until last week, when I watched the new documentary
My Name is Pauli Murray by Betsy West and Julie Cohen (directors of 2018’s
RBG), at the 2021 Full Frame Film Festival with my press pass granted through Chapelboro.com.
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Back when Scott Stringer was first running for comptroller in 2013, consent and sexual harassment were not the reigning feminist issues in Democratic politics. Prostitution was much higher on the list: Less than a decade ago, you could still campaign for office in New York City as a champion of women’s rights while dismissing the rights and sovereignty of sex workers say, by exploiting them to embarrass your rival, ex-governor Eliot Spitzer. Stringer was eager to rile up the public about Spitzer’s lack of “integrity,” thumping his chest about how he would’ve fired the former prosecutor: “He couldn’t work in my office.”
, a series of stories checking in on how things are going now for the people and products that were riding high during the last administration.
Donald Trump’s business empire did not exactly thrive during his presidency. Branding deals collapsed as his nameturnedtoxic in much of the country. The pandemic clobbered his hotels and golf resorts. The Capitol riots of Jan. 6 led longtime partners like Deutsche Bank, his most important lender, and the PGA of America, which moved its championship away from his New Jersey golf club, to finally cut bait.
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Yet through all the havoc, it seems that at least one Trump enterprise might not only have benefited from his initial White House run, but continued to flourish through the ups and downs of his Oval Office tenure and into his post-presidential era. That would be the Trump Winery, the apparent success of which is nothing if not a testament to the triumph of politics over taste.
BG Pride Drive returns June 6 for Pride Month Wed. May 12, 2021 9:02 AM by Ross Forman photo credit // ross forman 100-plus homes and businesses are stops on the rainbow journey The numbers tell the tale for the upcoming BG Pride Drive, which should far surpass the 2020 edition – and last year s vehicular pride celebration was a resounding success on a sun-soaked Sunday to kick off June.
Just consider some of what s on tap in northwest suburb Buffalo Grove on June 6 for the 3-hour event that starts at 12 noon:
-There are 100-plus homes and business that are stops on the rainbow journey, with more than 70 sponsors, including the top-tiered ZEAL Team (Zebra Equality Alliance for LGBTQ+) at Zebra Technologies.
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California laws go easier on rapists who attack their spouses. Legislation to change that has gone nowhere
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Kolieka Seigle, president of the California National Organization for Women, teamed up with other women’s groups and progressive district attorneys to seek a change to marital rape laws.Stephen Lam / The Chronicle
Stanford law professor Michele Dauber thought pushing for changes to the state’s spousal rape laws would be a no-brainer.
After all, this is 2021. In so-called progressive California. Why would anybody support old-fashioned laws distinguishing spousal rape from rape, making the latter subject to far more serious consequences?