As I began writing “Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer,” my biography of the 20th-century radical leader and activist, one of my colleagues cautioned me not to “fall in love.” This, of course ...

Queer and Black Civil Rights activist Bayard Rustin’s previously overshadowed work and legacy will now be available via ...

Bayard Rustin, a Native Son who died in 1987, is often a hidden figure in history. Like many Black gay men who historically played prominent roles in impacting racial justice and politics, Rustin ...

Bayard Rustin, the LGBTQ Civil Rights activist and mentor of Martin Luther King Jr., has left a legacy for Black and LGBTQ activists everywhere, and now the Bayard Rustin Center ...

And it was all due to Bayard Rustin. Rustin, George C. Wolfe’s stirring biography of the Black gay social activist, is the story of Rustin’s efforts to organize and execute this grand rally, ...

Giving an unsung hero of the civil-rights movement his overdue moment, “Rustin” shines a flattering if dutiful spotlight on Bayard Rustin – the ally of Martin Luther King Jr. who organized ...

Now Rustin’s impact is being lauded anew in a multimedia exhibition at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. The show is called “Speaking Truth to Power: The Life of Bayard Rustin ...

Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin is shown at the N.Y. Hilton on Dec. 14, 1970. Rustin’s career includes organizing the March on Washington in 1963 and the one in 1941.

Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil ...