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

But the man who gave him the platform for that speech, Bayard Rustin, has largely been forgotten by history. A new film aims to change that, and critic Bob Mondello says the biopic "Rustin" is at ...

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 organizer in the mass struggles for Black liberation, as well as an anti-war activist and even a labor organizer,” said Mychal Odom, an assistant professor of ...

This is the snapshot history has saved from that August day in 1963, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech … the sea of peaceful people, 250,000 of them, black ...

Obama saluted Bayard Rustin, the fearless architect of 1963’s March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, who “recognized injustice and stood up against it.” ...

Rustin’s fellow leaders “believed that the white press, and they weren’t wrong in this, but definitely J. Edgar Hoover, was going to use the fact that Bayard was a homosexual to discredit ...

In 'Rustin,' Colman Domingo portrays real-life civil rights activist Bayard Rustin as he organizes the 1963 March on Washington, famous for Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech. The ...

He was a mentor to Martin Luther King Jr. and organized the March on Washington. But Bayard Rustin was largely forgotten by history because he was an openly gay Black man during an era when ...

Sixty years ago this week, 250,000 people came together for the historic March on Washington, best remembered, of course, for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech ...

“Bayard Rustin was a civil rights organizer in the ... it’s historically caused people to see it as the “I Have a Dream” speech and to try to use it as a way to promote Dr. King as some ...

With the words, I have a dream, at the March on Washington in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. cemented his place in history. But the man who gave him the platform for that speech, Bayard Rustin, has ...