Without Bayard Rustin, would there have been a 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom? Would Martin Luther King, Jr. have stood before the world to offer his vision for progress with “I have a ...

The great unsung virtue of historical documentaries such as Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (2003), which premiered at Sundance 20 years ago and aired nationally on PBS, is rescuing and ...

A new film finally spotlights Bayard Rustin, the gay civil rights activist who organized the 1963 March on Washington Based on a True Story Zachary Clary - Historian, Vanderbilt University The March ...

How ‘Rustin’ and Native Son Teamed to Reclaim the Civil Rights Activist’s History as a Rallying Call The film's director George C. Wolfe, along with producer Bruce Cohen, Native Son founder Emil ...

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 ...

Six decades after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in front of an estimated 250,000 people on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, a new Netflix film is shining a ...

A few well-known photographs from the civil rights era are reconstructed at the start of the new Netflix movie “Rustin,” such as the moment when Black students sat at a whites-only lunch counter in ...

George C. Wolfe's biopic chronicles the work of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin in planning an executing the historic 1963 March on Washington. With the words, I have a dream, at the March on ...