Bayard Rustin

The project of “reclamation and celebration” proceeds from an impulse to rediscover black Greats who by force of their own will make “change.”

Bayard Rustin tried to forge a mass coalition to deliver progressive change. His failure to do so in the 1960s tells us much about building one today.

The civil-rights mastermind was sidelined by his own movement. Now he’s back in the spotlight. What can we learn from his strategies of resistance?

A new film finally spotlights Bayard Rustin, the gay civil rights activist who organized the 1963 March on Washington.

Rustin’s assessment of the lay of the political land was predicated on a no-nonsense understanding of the radicalism of the moment.

A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin knew the fates of the civil rights and labor movements were intertwined. The same is true today.

How would Bayard Rustin be judged today?

Though Bayard Rustin, close adviser to Martin Luther King Jr., was gay, his legacy is not well known in the queer community.

This new biopic about the socialist organizer Bayard Rustin stops at the March on Washington. What is it leaving out?

A conversation with the longtime director about “Rustin,” growing up in Kentucky, and putting on a show.

We should find inspiration in their goals today.

In 1950s America, the Cold War was raging, but socialists were playing key roles in the early civil rights movement.

Historians say that a major milestone in the history of school integration is often left out of the civil rights story.

How government commissions became alibis for inaction.

America is covered in Confederate statues. We can do better — and here’s how.

When covering the struggle against school segregation in its own backyard, the paper of record came up short.

Citizens pledge their allegiance to a nation that reciprocates with a pledge of allegiance to them. What does that look like?

The largest civil rights demonstration in U.S. history was not in Little Rock. Or Selma. Or Montgomery. It happened in New York City.

Thousands of New York City students staged a one-day boycott to protest segregation – and it barely made the history books.

Exploring the origins and impacts of the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," on that event's 50th anniversary.