Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bayard Rustin is one of the most important figures in modern American history whom many people knew nothing about — until now.

NEW YORK — Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil Rights Movement and key architect of the March on Washington. The ...

George C. Wolfe's film Rustin tells the important but largely unknown story of Bayard Rustin, a gay Black man and activist who played a crucial role in the civil rights movement, particularly the ...

The National Civil Rights Museum announced on June 9 the launch of the Bayard Rustin Institute, a permanent initiative to teach nonviolent organizing strategies. Housed in Memphis, the institute will ...

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 ...

If 200,000 Jews who turned up at the March for Israel in Washington on Nov. 14 feel more empowered since that gathering, they have Bayard Rustin to thank. Then again, so does everyone else in the ...

On Friday, the five-time Tony Award winning director George C. Wolfe’s RUSTIN will make its way to our television screens via Netflix, following the film’s silver screen debut in early November. The ...

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He stood 6-foot-1, weighed 190 pounds and moved with the grace of an athlete. A sharp dresser who favored linen shirts and stylish ties, Bayard Rustin sported a Clark Gable mustache and adopted a ...

Bayard Rustin organized the historic March on Washington back in 1963 and introduced the idea of nonviolence to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. NPR's history podcast Throughline has been doing a series of ...

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 ...