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 ...

Unlike civil rights legends such as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, Rosa Parks and John Lewis, Bayard Rustin is not a household name six decades after the March on Washington. Yet ...

In 2013, Bayard Rustin, who died in 1987, was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama, along with Bill Clinton and others. On that occasion progressive radio and ...

Coinciding with this weekend’s release of the film Rustin, which honors the deceased civil rights leader, the National Black Justice Coalition renewed its call for a “Black Heritage Stamp” honoring ...