The debaters on the Howard University podium that October 1961 day were taking up a question: Should African-Americans be against or for segregation? On the anti side was Bayard Rustin, ...

Rustin was committed to a vision of egalitarian social transformation and sought to alter the terms of political debate toward that end; Barack Obama is not and never has been. After the movie’s ...

Bayard Rustin has emerged of late as a hero almost perfectly tuned to our time. A Black civil-rights leader who was an architect of the 1963 March on Washington, he was also, in an aptly ...

As I began writing “Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer,” my biography of the 20th-century radical leader and activist, one of my ...

“If my great-grandfather picked cotton for 50 years, then he may deserve some money, but he’s dead and gone, and nobody owes me anything.”— Bayard Rustin, chief organizer, strategist, and ...

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 ...

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.

The 24th annual Bayard Rustin/Audre Lorde Breakfast honored the legacies of LGBTQ+ icons Bayard Rustin and Audre Lorde and celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. by promoting a vision of a “beloved ...