NEW YORK (AP) – This fall, a digital archive will open access to one of the Civil Rights Movement’s most overlooked leaders: Bayard Rustin. Built by the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice, the ...

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 ...

For nearly a decade LGBTQ advocates have been calling on the U.S. Postal Service to issue a stamp honoring the deceased gay Black civil rights leader Bayard Rustin. But just as a resolution in support ...

In 1949, a five-part series in the New York Post, entitled “22 Days on a Chain Gang,” compellingly documented the day-to-day grind experienced by men being held in a North Carolina prison. Its author ...

A new film finally spotlights Bayard Rustin, the gay civil rights activist who organized the 1963 March on Washington Based on a True Story Zachary Clary | Historian, Vanderbilt University The March ...

This episode has also been published as “Angelic Troublemaker: Bayard Rustin” and “Giving Bayard Rustin His Flowers“ Caption: Bayard Rustin, half-length portrait, facing front, microphones in ...

The civil rights leader and organizer of the March on Washington is the focus of a new biopic. Here’s how it stacks up against archival images. By Tiffany Martinbrough As an adolescent, Bayard Rustin ...

There’s such a sheen of biopic respectability coating Rustin—Netflix’s new award-season entrant—that you almost miss how radical it is. From left: Michael Potts as Cleve Robinson, Aml Ameen as Martin ...

First, there’s the equipment he brings to any assignment: that voice, primarily, so innately musical and expressive, and listenable. Even the sludgier expository passages in the Netflix feature ...