Durham's Pauli Murray Center sees recent changes, loss of federal grant as "attempts to revise and whitewash American history"

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Durham's Pauli Murray Center sees recent changes, loss of federal grant as "attempts to revise and whitewash American history"

By Leoneda Inge,

Lola Oliverio

Published April 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM EDT

The Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice in Durham is a historical site dedicated to the commemoration of the life and work of Reverend Doctor Pauli Murray, a queer, Black human rights and social justice advocate, priest, poet and organizer from Durham. The museum opened to the public in 2024 and is located in and around Murray鈥檚 childhood home.鈥�

Last week, the Center鈥痩ost a federal grant of over $300,000 from the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Just weeks earlier, Pauli Murray鈥檚 biography page was removed from the National Park Service and the page for the Pauli Murray House was scrubbed of words like 鈥渜ueer鈥� and 鈥渢ransgender.鈥� 鈥�

Due South's Leoneda Inge talks with Angela Thorpe Mason, the Executive Director of the Pauli Murray Center. 鈥�

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Angela Thorpe Mason, Executive Director of the Pauli Murray Center

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Leoneda Inge

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of 吉彩网网站's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at 吉彩网网站 as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda鈥檚 work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.

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Lola Oliverio

Lola Oliverio is an intern on 吉彩网网站's Due South daily talk show.

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