Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. George C. Wolfe cuts right to the chase when explaining why most people have never heard of Bayard Rustin, despite the fact that ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Who is Bayard Rustin?” That’s a question film producer and Palm Springs resident David Permut heard for 14 years while pitching ...
As the battle over teaching Black history unfolds in schools across the nation, a film premiering in theaters Friday highlights one of its most controversial aspects: the intersection of African ...
The George C. Wolfe-directed Rustin tells the story behind the historic 1963 March on Washington with a twist. Rather than centering around Martin Luther King Jr., the film tells it from the vantage ...
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 ...
“How can I say this…” he muses. “Black folks, especially in the Fifties and Sixties, had to show the ‘best’ of ourselves, because images were everything. Television, how we’re perceived. So there was ...
TORONTO, ONT – Bayard Rustin, the civil rights activist and primary architect of the 1963 March on Washington, who often worked tirelessly out of the limelight, takes center stage in the new Netflix ...
The Arkansas Cinema Society will screen "Rustin," the story of gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, who organized the 1963 March on Washington, at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 26 at Ron Robinson Theater, 100 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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