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"To Buy the Sun": New Play About the Life of Pauli Murray
In a poem called "Dark Testament," Durham author and activist Pauli Murray wrote "Freedom is a dream/Haunting as amber wine/Or worlds remembered out of time." Murray's dream of freedom for all people drove her to become an advocate for civil rights as early as the 1930s. Her pioneering spirit has been captured in a new stage production called "To Buy the Sun." Playwright Lynden Harris joins host Frank Stasio to talk about bringing Murray's story to the stage. Also joining the conversation are Chaunesti Webb Lyon and Brie Nash, the actors who appear in the production, and Barbara Lau, director of The Pauli Murray Project, an ongoing human rights program based in Durham.
"To Buy the Sun": New Play About the Life of Pauli Murray
In a poem called "Dark Testament," Durham author and activist Pauli Murray wrote "Freedom is a dream/Haunting as amber wine/Or worlds remembered out of time." Murray's dream of freedom for all people drove her to become an advocate for civil rights as early as the 1930s. Her pioneering spirit has been captured in a new stage production called "To Buy the Sun." Playwright Lynden Harris joins host Frank Stasio to talk about bringing Murray's story to the stage. Also joining the conversation are Chaunesti Webb Lyon and Brie Nash, the actors who appear in the production, and Barbara Lau, director of The Pauli Murray Project, an ongoing human rights program based in Durham.
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