“Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down” (2022) – “So many people hurt. A lot of people died. Always connected to them. Grateful to survive. I’m alive.” – Gabrielle Dee Giffords On Jan. 8, 2011 in front of a Tucson, Ariz. Safeway grocery store, a lone shooter wreaked havoc on a Congress on Your Corner event and killed six people and injured 13 others. U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle ‘Gabby’ Giffords was one of the wounded, shot in the head and then rushed to a hospital. While watching directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West’s…
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‘My Name is Pauli Murray’: Please meet this American pioneer
“My Name is Pauli Murray” – “I want to see America be what she says she is in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. America, be what you proclaim to be!” – Pauli Murray During the opening few minutes of the documentary “My Name is Paul Murray”, Karen Rouse Ross – who is Pauli Murray’s grand-niece and the executrix of her estate – explains, “Pauli did not share a lot about her life with me. I knew she was a priest. I knew she had been a lawyer, but she…