This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Walter Naegle, an artist and photographer who is the surviving partner of Bayard Rustin, the late American Civil Rights leader. The essay ...

Naegle was his partner for ten years ... Elizabethan songs – the same Bayard Rustin whose involvement in non-violent protests got him beaten. He was arrested more than 20 times and jailed.

TheGrio’s Jared Alexander caught up with the editor of “Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics,” Michael G. Long, and Rustin’s surviving partner Walter Naegle days before the 60th ...

Bayard Rustin was one of those people ... The first person I reached out to was Bayard’s partner, Walter Naegle. With a biographical film, the main story is more difficult to find than the ...

Bayard Rustin, a trusted adviser to Martin Luther ... of his homosexuality and obliquely described Mr. Rustin’s longtime partner as his “administrative assistant and adopted son.” ...

WEST CHESTER, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- The nation celebrated the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington on Monday, in which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led more than 200,000 people in a call for ...

Bayard Rustin isn’t a famous name ... several entertainment biographies with her late husband and creative partner, Rob Edelman. The views expressed by commentators are solely those of the ...

Bayard Rustin was a civil rights leader who organized the 1963 March on Washington. Rustin was marginalized for his identity as a gay Black man, but continued to fight for equality. His surviving ...