Young John Lewis” uses gospel, soul and hip-hop to shape the story of a man who inspired millions throughout his Civil Rights career.

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, ...

A master strategist and committed pacifist, Bayard Rustin was the architect behind many of the civil rights movement’s most important victories, notably the 1963 March on Washington, where ...

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 ...

Nero used the 2023 biopic Rustin, based on Rustin’s life and starring Colman Domingo, to exhibit how Rustin’s sexuality and his fight for civil liberties were inextricably linked. “There’s a ...

The movement was Fannie Lou Hamer, Septima Clark, Rev. John Lewis, Andrew Young, Diane Nash, Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, the Rev. James Lawson, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, Stanley Levinson, Marian ...

Rustin (2023) Rustin, George C. Wolfe’s biographical drama, written by Julian Breece and Dustin Lance Black, is perfect for Black History Month. It’s based on a story from Breece about the life of ...

Bayard Rustin was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania in 1912, the ninth of twelve children to Florence Rustin and Archie ... In 1934, at 14 years old, he was admitted as a freshman to Wiley College, ...

It now feels better to have a gay actor play a prominent LGBT+ figure such as Harvey Milk or, recently embodied by Oscar-nominated Colman Domingo, civil-rights activist Bayard Rustin. But, yes, it ...

In this way, we can hope that someday a future Bayard Rustin—a prophetic changemaker, a drum major for justice and righteousness—will be able to say: “My activism is rooted fundamentally in ...

Born Bayard Taylor Rustin in Pennsylvania in 1912, the civil rights icon was named after Bayard Taylor, who some credit with having written America's first gay novel.