Its author was none other than Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader—and later one of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.’s top confidants. “As I lay in bed for a few last minutes’ rest ...

Andre D. Carroll, D-Phila., that designates March 17, 2025, as “Bayard Rustin Day” in Pennsylvania. On Wednesday, leaders from the Chester County History Center (CCHC) traveled to the ...

Bayard Rustin ... of Congress/Interim Archives/Getty Images Ironically, homophobia, respectability politics, and colonized American morality quieted Rustin’s existence and profound contributions ...

The Bayard Rustin Symposium is returning to Vallejo this weekend after a year hiatus, this time celebrating local activist Brenda Crawford. Since 2018, Anna Bergman has organized the Bayard Rustin ...

Here’s how it stacks up against archival images. Colman Domingo carries this ... look at much larger role civil rights strategist Bayard Rustin played in organizing 1963 March on Washington ...

“It’s very important for me, especially after a film like Rustin, that [Bayard Rustin] is pulled out of the shadows of history, and he’s taken his rightful place in the center of his own story.

Awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013 posthumously to Bayard Rustin 50 years after he served as the March on Washington's chief organizer, President Barack Obama said the honoree ...

Bayard Rustin is one of the most important figures ... for public leadership — and was also seen as a threat to King’s image as other Civil Rights leaders worked to gain equality for Black ...

Wolfe: He was openly gay and was forced to the sidelines because his sexuality was considered too taboo for public leadership — and was also seen as a threat to King’s image as other Civil ...

What is it leaving out? When I learned that Barack and Michelle Obama had announced a biopic on the socialist organizer Bayard Rustin through their production company Higher Ground, I shuddered a bit.

Going into the writing process, my hope was to write a film that honored Bayard Rustin and the other invisible men. I learned about Bayard Rustin, the genius behind the March on Washington ...

(RNS) — Bayard Rustin’s contributions to the Civil Rights Movement were methodically marginalized and his role overshadowed by figures like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. It’s little ...