News about the Center
July 24, 2026 - Pauli Murray Center Receives $50,000 Grant to Support Strategic Plan
$50,000 Grant Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation
April 15, 2025 - Pauli Murray Center Loses $330,800 in Federal Funding
The Pauli Murray Center’s IMLS Grant Rescinded due to Executive Order 14238
March 25, 2025 - Pauli Murray Center Receives Generous $45,000 Donation
Susan Wisely donates $15,000: qualifying for 2:1 match, for a total gift of $45,000.
March 6, 2025 - Pauli Murray Center Denounces Efforts to Erase Murray’s Transgender Legacy
Condemnation of Federal Efforts to Erase Murray’s Queer and Transgender Legacy
Nov. 18, 2024 - NCLWF Awards $368,625 to PMC
Transformational Grant Enables Pauli Murray Center to Purchase Historic Site
Sept. 26, 2024 - AAAM Awards $25,000 to the Pauli Murray Center
Pauli Murray Center Receives Grant from the Association of African American Museums
September 18, 2024 - IndyWeek Feature
Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice Aims to Continue Legacy of Durham Civil Rights Icon
September 11, 2024 - Reckon News Feature
The Pauli Murray Center and the house of love that raised a Queer Black child
July 19, 2024 - Grand Opening Announcement
The Pauli Murray Center for Social Justice Opens to the Public
June 14, 2024 - IMLS Awards Over $300,000 to PMC
Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice Receives Competitive Grant from IMLS
March 1, 2023 - New Leadership Announcement
Pauli Murray Center Welcomes New Executive Director
September 1, 2022 - Leadership Transition
Pauli Murray Center Leader Passing the Baton
June 22, 2022 - Episcopal News Service
Pauli Murray Center to host 10th anniversary pilgrimage through the streets of Durham by Pat McCaughan
September 25, 2021 - Herald Sun
Durham director preserves Pauli Murray’s legacy of human rights for the greater good by Penelope Blackwell
September 23, 2021 - INDY Week
Pauli Murray Center Receives “Transformational” $1.6 Million Dollar Andrew W. Mellon Grant by Sarah Edwards
September 10, 2021 - The News & Observer
Before ‘My Name Is Pauli Murray’ hits national theaters, NC audiences can see it first by Penelope Blackwell
September 10, 2021 - ABC11
Free NC film screening of ‘My Name Is Pauli Murray’
August 26, 2021 - NC Policy Watch
Anniversary of the 19th Amendment a reminder that American women are still denied equal rights by Rob Schofield
April 30, 2021 - Scalawag
A Prophet Without Eyes: Pauli Murray's Moment by Brenna Casey
April 26, 2021 - House Beautiful
Four Years Ago, Only 2% of Buildings on the National Register Spoke to African American History—Meet the Historian Changing That by Maria C Hunt
March 1, 2021 — Daily Tar Heel
“Commission on History, Race, and a Way Forward partners with local firm Turn of Events”
February 11, 2021 — ABC11
“Advocates push for Pauli Murray’s place in civil-rights pantheon”
