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'Rustin' puts a spotlight on a undersung civil rights hero

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 drama “Rustin.”

The Independent UK

Rustin review – Colman Domingo shines in by-the-numbers civil rights biopic

Story of Bayard Rustin, an often unsung Black queer man who fought alongside Martin Luther King, is adapted into a rousing, if creaky, drama

The Guardian - US

‘I witnessed the best of America’: remembering the March on Washington 60 years on

Participants and organisers recall the critical role of women, Harry Belafonte and Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech

The Guardian - US

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Rustin: release date, cast, photos and everything we know

Rustin celebrates the life and legacy of legendary Civil Rights activist Bayard Rustin. Here's everything we know about the movie.

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Daniel Akst: The World War II Pacifists Who Changed America Forever

"Christian libertarians" Bayard Rustin and David Dellinger challenged state power and ended up leading the civil rights movement and anti-Vietnam War protests.

Reason

Newsom vowed to pardon LGBTQ Californians. Only 1 living person has benefited

Three years after Gov. Gavin Newsom announced an initiative to pardon LGBTQ Californians who were prosecuted for being gay, only one living person has benefited from the program.

Los Angeles Times

The Militant Pacifists of World War II

War by Other Means tells the story of those conscientious objectors who did not cooperate with the government's alternative-service schemes.

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A brief history of the Black church's diversity, and its vital role in American political history

With religious affiliation on the decline, continuing racism and increasing income inequality, some scholars and activists are soul-searching about the Black church’s role in today’s United States.

The Conversation

Meet Bayard Rustin, often-forgotten civil rights activist, gay rights advocate, union organizer, pacifist and man of compassion for all in trouble

As I began writing “Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer,” my biography of the 20th-century radical leader and activist, one of my colleagues cautioned me not to “fall in love.”

The Conversation

Review: 'War by Other Means,' by Daniel Akst

NONFICTION: The little-known story of pacifist activism during World War II, told through the lives of four people.

Tribune News Service

Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin to have sentence overturned after 75 years

Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men who were sentenced to work on a chain gang in North Carolina after they launched the first of the “freedom rides” to challenge Jim Crow laws will have their sentences posthumously vacated on Friday, more than seven decades later.

Irish Independent

Freedom riders' 1947 convictions vacated in North Carolina

Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men will have their sentences vacated posthumously

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