Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Who is Bayard Rustin?" That's a question film producer and Palm Springs resident David Permut heard for 14 years while pitching ...

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Michelle and Barack Obama joined dozens of talented filmmakers and activists in Washington D.C. to celebrate the opening night screening of Rustin. The Obamas, who served as executive producers of the ...

The George C. Wolfe-directed Rustin tells the story behind the historic 1963 March on Washington with a twist. Rather than centering around Martin Luther King Jr., the film tells it from the vantage ...

MLK ADVISOR Bayard Rustin, center, speaks with young adults prior to a demonstration in 1964. (Photo by Ed Ford, World-Telegram, public domain) With the recent release of a new Netflix film portraying ...

George C. Wolfe's film Rustin tells the important but largely unknown story of Bayard Rustin, a gay Black man and activist who played a crucial role in the civil rights movement, particularly the ...

But there’s a reason this movie is called Rustin, and not, say, March or Freedom. Wolfe may have gone on record as saying he hates the concept of the biopic. Yet he’s definitely made a boilerplate one ...

With the words, I have a dream, at the March on Washington in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. cemented his place in history. But the man who gave him the platform for that speech, Bayard Rustin, has ...

Netflix is hosting a special screening of "Rustin" for 300 high school and city college students in honor of the historic day. A special screening of the film at the Paris Theatre is organized by ...

He stood 6-foot-1, weighed 190 pounds and moved with the grace of an athlete. A sharp dresser who favored linen shirts and stylish ties, Bayard Rustin sported a Clark Gable mustache and adopted a ...

If 200,000 Jews who turned up at the March for Israel in Washington on Nov. 14 feel more empowered since that gathering, they have Bayard Rustin to thank. Then again, so does everyone else in the ...

George C. Wolfe's biopic chronicles the work of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin in planning an executing the historic 1963 March on Washington. With the words, I have a dream, at the March on ...