Pauli murray: civil rights lawyer

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It’s been 50 years since the Sex Discrimination Act came into force in the UK, a law touted as ‘ending the battle of the sexes’ by prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of sex or marital status. I

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The British cycling icon talks James Shrubsall through her astonishing journey, on and off the bike

In 1976, the revolutionary singer-songwriter LAURA NYRO returned from self-imposed exile. But her comeback confounded expectations, shifting away from the impassioned intimacies of her early albums to embrace more radical perspectives. Fifty years on, Nyro’s collaborators revisit her striking second act. “She was a hip American from the Bronx,” one friend and producer tells Rob Hughes. “But her soul was old.”