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It was strategist Bayard Rustin – a pacifist and gay Black man – who organized the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I have a dream" speech. But ...

Julian Breece speaks of the power of the activist’s story, which has finally received the feature film treatment. By Tyler Coates Awards Editor The reason Rustin is absent from mainstream history is ...

Bayard Rustin was a seasoned civil rights organizer — with arrests and scars to prove it. Between the 1940s and 1960s, the West Chester native led a boycott of the segregated New York City public ...

Let’s talk openly about one of the most successful organizers and advocates in American History. His name was Bayard Rustin. It was Rustin who was the chief organizer of the March on Washington, where ...

His name has gained wider recognition in more recent decades, but civil rights activist and organizer Bayard Rustin has long deserved a much more respected place in the history of the Civil Rights ...

It all started with a dream. Aml Ameen dreamed of playing Martin Luther King Jr. just a month before he scored the audition for Netflix’s Rustin. After learning about the film, Aml quickly dived into ...

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Karine Jean-Pierre, Colman Domingo and George C. Wolfe at the 33rd Annual Gotham Awards held at Cipriani Wall Street on November 27, 2023 in New York City. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images EXCLUSIVE: If on ...

Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil Rights Movement and key architect of the March on Washington. Subscribe to ...