Dear Friends:
In the last few months, I have been interrogating what it means to “be in community.” I hear this phrase often, but have a great deal of curiosity around how this takes shape in people’s lives.
Per usual, Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray offers us guidance here. While we revere Pauli for all that they contributed to the world, please be reminded that they did not work or live in a vacuum. Pauli had rich relationships with her family; loving, depth-filled partnerships with women; lasting, vulnerable friendships (especially with Black women); and was integrated in community institutions — churches, civic groups, community organizing efforts, and more.
So, I urge you to consider—what does being in community mean to you? And how might you put some of Pauli’s strategies into practice?
Onward,
Angela Thorpe Mason
Executive Director
Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice