Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this Feb. 2, 1964, image, Bayard Rustin talks on a telephone from a church in Brooklyn, New York. Patrick A. Burns/New York ...
This article first appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publication’s permission. Back in February 2010, the radio show State of the Re:Union, created by Al Letson, produced an ...
“The proof that one truly believes is in action” – a quote by activist Bayard Rustin – opens the documentary about the man who famously organized the March on Washington in 1963. Brother Outsider: The ...
Accounts of the life of Martin Luther King Jr often present him as a singularly great individual. Yet MLK was profoundly shaped by a vibrant ecosystem of socialists and labor radicals, from Myles ...
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.” This, of course, is good ...