Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this Feb. 2, 1964, image, Bayard Rustin talks on a telephone from a church in Brooklyn, New York. Patrick A. Burns/New York ...

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 LGBTQ+ history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil Rights Movement and key architect of the March on Washington.

When people remember the March on Washington they often recall the giant crowds or Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” ...

MLK ADVISOR Bayard Rustin, center, speaks with young adults prior to a demonstration in 1964. (Photo by Ed Ford, World-Telegram, public domain) With the recent release of a new Netflix film portraying ...

WEST CHESTER, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- The nation celebrated the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington on Monday, in which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led more than 200,000 people in a call for ...

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 ...

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 ...

(RNS) — Bayard Rustin’s contributions to the Civil Rights Movement were methodically marginalized and his role overshadowed by figures like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. It’s little surprise, given ...

Civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, spokesman for the Citywide Committee for Integration, talks on the phone at the organization's headquarters at Silcam Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York, Feb.

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 ...

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 ...