Loss + Hope + Joy
This November 20th is our dearly beloved Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray's 110th birthday. We will be celebrating and reflecting all weekend! Acknowledge the loss, hold the hope, and reach for the joy.
Join in by sending us your songs, bringing your labyrinth offering, and joining in our reflection of Pauli’s legacy.
Pauli Murray Birthday Playlist Release Party
Friday, November 20, 2020 | 7:00 p.m.
As part of our COVID-friendly celebrations, we are co-creating a musical playlist for Pauli Murray's 110th birthday. The playlist includes musical selections that:
Bring you Birthday joy
Make you feel good
Remind you of Pauli Murray
Invoke the kind of world Pauli believed in and worked for.
We hope you'll join in the fun and participate as you're able: offer a song, play the music, sing and dance along, and celebrate Pauli.
Labyrinth Community Artmaking
Saturday, November 21, 2020 | 12-3 p.m.
906 Carroll Street.
Led by Courtney Reid-Eaton & Jesse Huddleston
Please join us at the Center (906 Carroll Street in Durham, NC) for the construction of a LABYRINTH dedicated to Loss, Hope and Joy.
Bring shoes, rocks, bricks, ceramics, crockery, artificial flowers… whatever represents your loss/hope/joy.
THIS year....the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the year of “racial reckoning,” the year of a(nother) world changing election in the United States of America…celebration feels more important than ever.
LOSS + HOPE + JOY are the story of ALL Black Lives.
Black Lives Matter. ALL Black Lives Matter. Queer Black Lives Matter. Black Trans Lives Matter. Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray’s Life Matters.
A labyrinth is a sacred space; a Spiritual tool; a process of pilgrimage; a map for loss and renewal; a guide for healing and growth.
We will be masked and practicing safe physical distancing–to receive offerings to be part of the labyrinth. We intend it to be a long-term installation at the site.
Bring shoes, rocks, bricks, ceramics, crockery, artificial flowers… whatever represents your loss/hope/joy. Please do not bring fragile glass objects, but feel free to bring multiple objects, being mindful that they will remain outside, in the weather for several months. They may be decorated, inscribed, or they may speak as they are.
Participation in this event is meant to be brief—10 minute visits, please. Drop off your object(s) enjoy a refreshment, and leave with a gift, including an offering from artist and MacArthur Award recipient, Carrie Mae Weems’ recent project, RESIST COVID/TAKE SIX!, https://nasher.duke.edu/exhibitions/resist-covid-take-six/presented by The Nasher Museum of Art, in collaboration with Duke Arts and Duke Health.
Row, Row, Row Your Boat:
A Sunday Service in honor of Pauli Murray
Sunday, November 22, 2020 | 11 a.m.
Please join us online for a Sunday service with Mobile Homecoming's Sangodare and Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs. The event will be dedicated to Loss, Hope and Joy.
We will broadcast the webinar from mobilehomecoming.org/live on Sunday, November 22nd at 11 AM.
Be a Warrior for Truth: Support 30k in 30 Days
Friday, November 20th - Sunday, December 20th
The Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice invites you to change the story and be a warrior for truth. To keep Pauli Murray’s vision alive, we need to raise 30k in 30 days.