Reconstructed Blackness: Race, Identity and Belonging in the Life and Work of Pauli Murray

02.07.25 ›› Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) hosted a talk with Professor Lisa A. Crooms-Robinson, the 2024-25 Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett Schlesinger Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute and a professor of law at Howard University School of Law. Crooms-Robinson spoke about her latest archival research into the life and teachings of Rev. Dr. Anna Pauline “Pauli”Murray, a civil rights activist, legal scholar, feminist, poet, author, labor organizer and Episcopal priest. Her talk explored Murray’s complex relationship with Blackness, framed against the historical context of Scott v. Sandford and the Reconstruction Amendments.

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