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Bayard Rustin, theGrio.com
July 8, 2025
The Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice will launch a digital archive this fall featuring articles, media, telegrams, speeches, and more.
August 30, 2023
TheGrio caught up with the editor of “Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics” Michael G. Long and Rustin’s…
Actors Gus Helper, CCH Pounder and others in “Rustin”
August 28, 2023
The "Rustin" trailer is here! Colman Domingo stars in the first look at Netflix's highly anticipated biopic on the famed…
July 19, 2023
"Rustin" is on the way. The highly anticipated biopic on the life of Bayard Rustin is coming to Netflix later…
August 5, 2022
Colman Domingo is taking on one of the biggest civil rights leaders. In the new biopic from Netflix, the actor…
Bayard Rustin
February 22, 2022
From the civil rights movement to electrical engineering, these Black pioneers should be recognized in American history.
February 12, 2021
"Rustin" is set to be overseen by Higher Ground, the production house of popular former president and first lady Barack…
June 28, 2020
OPINION: Dr. Sheldon Applewhite says Black LGBTQ voices have been muted or ignored, both as champions of freedom and as…
Bayard Rustin
February 5, 2020
California Gov Gavin Newsom pardoned Bayard Rustin for his arrest in 1953 that landed the civil rights leader in jail…
Malik Yoba
September 13, 2019
Earlier this month Malik Yoba admitted to the world that he was attracted to trans women and found himself in…
February 15, 2018
[griojw id=”1jI64192″ playerid=”GqX43ZoG”] Black History Month is all about celebrating our best and brightest for their history-making contributions to Black
January 16, 2017
Today we celebrate what would have been the 89th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr,. a man who is considered by
December 25, 2014
“It is good to be present when the ordinary is trans­formed… It is good to see the commonplace illumined and
February 5, 2014
theGRIO SLIDESHOW - So many people have contributed greatly to the ongoing struggle for justice and equality and yet have…
November 20, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is bestowing the Presidential Medal of Freedom on more than a dozen prominent Americans…
September 2, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Although today Dr. King’s iconic 'I Have a Dream' speech often symbolizes the March for many, it…
August 29, 2013
theGRIO VIDEO - The couple, which had been together for ten years at the time of Rustin's death, could not…
August 23, 2013
ESSAY - This black, gay man of iconic stature -- who planned the 1963 March on Washington -- would have…
August 21, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Months before Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' declaration galvanized a quarter-million people at the…
August 9, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Bayard Rustin, one of the most important, yet unheralded, figures in the civil rights movement will be…