Union Temple Baptist Church in Southeast D.C. unveiled a new portrait of Bayard Rustin on Sunday. Rustin was an openly gay, civil rights activist and strategist. He is also known for being the ...

A sharp dresser who favored linen shirts and stylish ties, Bayard Rustin sported a Clark Gable mustache and adopted a British accent that gave him an even more courtly bearing. There was no civil ...

Domingo plays Bayard Rustin, one of the most influential figures of the civil rights movement, in the forthcoming Netflix film directed by George C. Wolfe and produced by the Obamas' company.

Here’s how it stacks up against archival images. By Tiffany Martinbrough As an adolescent, Bayard Rustin had many virtues. He was smart: He served as his high school valedictorian. He was ...

African American civil rights activist Bayard Rustin (1912–1987) talks to a reporter on July 23, 1964, during the Harlem Riots in Manhattan. (Photo by Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images ...

Another scene shows little Ruby Bridges as she’s escorted by marshals to a New Orleans elementary school, an image also recreated in a famous ... years in the life of gay civil rights activist Bayard ...

was fraught with interpersonal complications involving his old friend Bayard Rustin. (Photo credit: Patrick A. Burns / New York Times Co. / Getty Images) In 1963, Rustin didn’t have the ...

Domingo plays Bayard Rustin, the civil rights activist and master planner behind 1963's March on Washington. By Zoe G. Phillips Colman Domingo shared this week what former President Barack Obama ...

It was the defining public triumph of Rustin’s life. After a little historical scene-setting — via images of stoic protesters surrounded by screaming racists — the director George C.