Although Bayard Rustin was one of the most important leaders of the American civil rights movement from the advent of its modern period in the 1950s until well into the 1980s, his name was seldom ...

Its author was none other than Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader—and later one of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.’s top confidants. “As I lay in bed for a few last minutes’ rest ...

As I began writing “Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer,” my biography of the 20th-century radical leader and activist, one of my ...

Bayard Rustin, a Native Son who died in 1987, is often a hidden figure in history. Like many Black gay men who historically played prominent roles in impacting racial justice and politics ...

Beyond his work for racial justice, Rustin, a gay Black man, was an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, a fact that Rep. Carroll emphasized as deeply meaningful. “As a gay, Black man, Bayard ...

Credit: Netflix It's hard to mince words when it comes to Rustin, the George C. Wolfe-directed historical drama about openly gay Civil Rights activist Bayard Rustin. It's a terrible, scattered ...

Andre D. Carroll, D-Phila., that designates March 17, 2025, as “Bayard Rustin Day” in Pennsylvania. On Wednesday, leaders from the Chester County History Center (CCHC) traveled to the ...

In 1963 Bayard Rustin, a political activist is influenced by the speeches, thoughts and actions of Martin Luther King. When given the task of organizing and coordinating a freedom march of around ...

The "generational gap," as the cliche has it, is considerably less than tremendous. Bayard Rustin's recent visit to Harvard as an Honorary Associate of the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics ...