The movie “Rustin” has finally shone a proper spotlight on the life and crucial work of civil rights pioneer Bayard Rustin, picking up abundant accolades along the way that include an Oscar nomination ...

Rustin was marginalized for his identity as a gay Black man, but continued to fight for equality. His surviving partner Walter Naegle spoke with Insider reporter Yoonji Han about keeping Rustin's ...

Bayard Rustin was a seasoned civil rights organizer — with arrests and scars to prove it. Between the 1940s and 1960s, the West Chester native led a boycott of the segregated New York City public ...

A National Civil Rights Museum exhibit shows how Bayard Rustin shaped history while remaining largely behind the scenes. You ...

We asked a few members of the community who would they choose as their Black History hero, why that person inspired them, and what they wanted their own legacy to be. And there were two caveats: They ...

For nearly a decade LGBTQ advocates have been calling on the U.S. Postal Service to issue a stamp honoring the deceased gay Black civil rights leader Bayard Rustin. But just as a resolution in support ...

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, Rustin’s ...

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. The Bayard ...

Bayard Rustin was born a Quaker in Pennsylvania and became an advocate of non-violent resistance in the civil rights movement. He was openly gay at a time when most people in his position would have ...

In the ’90s I was a founding member of the Black History Club in high school, took Black history courses in college and worked in the minority affairs office in grad school, and yet I did not know who ...