In this Feb. 2, 1964, image, Bayard Rustin talks on a telephone from a church in Brooklyn, New York. Patrick A. Burns/New York Times Co./Getty Images As I began writing “Bayard Rustin: American ...

The new biopic about the socialist organizer stops at the March on Washington. What is it leaving out? When I learned that Barack and Michelle Obama had announced a biopic on the socialist organizer ...

Five years ago, Anna Bergman began her quest to spread the word on the work of the late Bayard Rustin. As time has gone by, her support for the Civil Rights and Labor strategist has only grown. A ...

While heroes fall out of the spotlight for a number of reasons, Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader who organized the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, never fully emerged from the ...

Bayard Rustin was openly gay when he organized the march in Washington, D.C. during which Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. He is probably one of the biggest pioneers of ...

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 ...

You have probably noticed the buzz about the new biopic about one of America’s greatest and most often overlooked civil rights leaders, Bayard Rustin. Maybe you’ve already watched it. As biopics go, ...

Ask most Americans what they think of “radicals” and you’ll hear skepticism. Ask them about “practical radicals,” and you might get a chuckle. Surely practical people don’t try to change society in ...

In commemoration of Black Queer civil rights leader Bayard Rustin’s birthday today, Mar. 17, the National Black Justice Coalition, a leading Black LGBTQ+/SGL civil rights organization, is urging ...

The San Diego GLBTQ Historic Task Force partnered with Mayor Todd Gloria’s office and the City of San Diego Human Relations Commission last week to wrap up Black History Month by honoring ten San ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jerald Podair, Lawrence University (THE CONVERSATION) As I began writing “Bayard ...