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Social justice trailblazer becomes queer icon three decades later in Sundance film Dan Allen © Provided by NBC News As filmmakers Betsy West and Julie Cohen were creating "RBG," their wildly popular, Oscar-nominated documentary about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, they encountered a far more unsung social justice trailblazer who also was a strong inspiration for Ginsburg: Pauli Murray. Murray, born in Baltimore in 1910, was orphaned at a young age and raised by maternal relatives in Durham, North Carolina, before forging a singular path to become a successful act...

‘RBG’ directors shed light on another legal trailblazer Pauli Murray organized sit-ins at segregated lunch counters, wrote in law journals and was one of the founders of the National Organization for Women. By LINDSEY BAHRAssociated Press Share A scene from "My Name is Pauli Murray." Murray, who was Black and gender fluid, was a pivotal figure in shaping litigation and thinking around gender and racial equality, years before the civil rights or women’s movements. Sundance Institute via AP Directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West first came across the name Pauli Murray while working on th...

Shae O. Omonijo is a first-year graduate student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. One hundred years ago today on January 29, 1921 at Radcliffe College, Dr. Eva Beatrice Dykes successfully submitted her dissertation “Pope and His Influence in America from 1715-1850” to become the first Black woman to complete the requirements for a Ph.D. in the United States. The morning I first saw Dr. Dykes’ dissertation submission for her Doctor of Philosophy in English Philology degree, Harvard announced the closure of campus due to the rising Covid-19 pandemic. Minutes after receiving th...

Regulus Announces Addition to Board of Directors News provided by Share this article LA JOLLA, Calif., Jan. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --  Regulus Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: RGLS), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of innovative medicines targeting microRNAs, today announced Alice S. Huang, Ph.D. has been appointed to the Company's board of directors. Concurrently with her appointment to the Board, Dr. Huang was appointed to serve on the Compensation Committee. "We are pleased to add Dr. Huang to the Regulus board.  We believe her extensive scientific backgroun...

January 18, 2021 5:25 PMLegal - By SAN FRANCISCO—Margo St. James, founder of COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) and the St. James Infirmary health clinic,  died at a memory care facility on January 11, due to St. James' continuing problem with dementia. Born in Bellingham, Washington on September 12, 1937, St. James moved to San Francisco on St. Patrick’s Day in 1958, securing a room above the El Matador on Broadway. She would later join the beatnik scene, hanging out in jazz clubs in North Beach. St. James once said, “This was all before desegregation so finding hip places like ...