Trump administration erases page honoring trailblazing priest, lawyer and activist

Trump administration erases page honoring trailblazing priest, lawyer and activist

Faith leaders, historians, and advocates are speaking out after the National Park Service removed its webpage dedicated to Rev. Pauli Murray, a pivotal figure in civil rights history who broke barriers as both a legal scholar and the first perceived Black woman ordained as an Episcopal priest. “That’s fascism,” said Sarah Azaransky, a Murray scholar who co-authored the application that designated Murray’s childhood home a National Historic Landm…