nothing,” reflected civil rights activist Bayard Rustin in a 1979 interview. The speeches were over. The microphone was silent. The estimated 250,000 marchers were on their way home.

As I began writing “Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer,” my biography ... remarks eventually constituted one of the greatest speeches ever delivered in American history. The constituent parts ...

Sponsored These powerful men play second fiddle to a sometimes manic, sometimes melancholy, always charming Colman Domingo as Bayard Rustin. Julian Breece and Dustin Lance Black’s screenplay gives ...

“There was no one more American, I believe, than Bayard Rustin,” Domingo ... researching his written work, his speeches, and his mannerisms. He also spoke to Rustin’s loved ones, such ...

Wolfe turns the spotlight on Bayard Rustin, a lesser-known contemporary ... There are many incredible people who gave great speeches that day, but at the end of the day an international figure ...

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 comment stings Bayard Rustin (Domingo) a little ... Rustin’s many rousing mini-speeches – they’re all mini-speeches when you know what’s coming at the end of the movie – and montages ...

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 ...

The 24th annual Bayard Rustin/Audre Lorde Breakfast honored the legacies of LGBTQ+ icons Bayard Rustin and Audre Lorde and celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. by promoting a vision of a “beloved ...

The film aims in part to correct a historical injustice: the sidelining and near erasure of out activist Bayard Rustin ... fullness,” delivering Rustin’s speeches “with magnetic intensity ...

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 ...

There are many incredible people who gave great speeches that day ... But there were also complications with Bayard having been a Communist — he later rejected it — and being out and gay.