If you happen to meet up with me in person, ask me if I've still got any Pauli Murray quarters to share. We reacted to the news that the U.S. Mint had issued quarters commemorating the Black, gender-ambiguous, legal thinker, civil rights campaigner, and Episcopal priest by ordering a supply.
Murray died in 1985, but her example and work lives on. The text on the coin reads "A Song in a Weary Throat," referring to Murray's posthumous autobiography.
These coins would never have been issued in a Republican administration; sometimes it is the tiny cultural shifts that point to our potential as a country.
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