His name has gained wider recognition in more recent decades, but civil rights activist and organizer Bayard Rustin has long deserved a much more respected place in the history of the Civil Rights ...

In this Feb. 2, 1964, image, Bayard Rustin talks on a telephone from a church in Brooklyn, New York. Patrick A. Burns/New York Times Co./Getty Images As I began writing “Bayard Rustin: American ...

Sixty-two years ago, a quarter of a million people gathered for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, ...

Ro Boddie again embodies the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. in "The American Five" at Ford's Theatre.

Judson L. Jeffries is professor of African American and African studies at Ohio State University and a regular contributor to The Columbus Dispatch. Of that which has been written about Dr. Martin ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil Rights Movement and key architect of the March on Washington ...

NEW YORK -- Social justice advocates are creating a LGBTQ+ history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil Rights Movement and key architect of the March on Washington.