updated Fri. October 4, 2024
-
Memphis Flyer
March 15, 2018
In 1957, along with Bayard Rustin and Stanley Levison, Baker co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). As a field organizer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), she traveled extensively throughout the South to organize local NAACPÃâà...
CBS Philly
March 15, 2018
Ballplayer released after domestic violence video releasedA Pennsylvania minor league baseball team has cut an outfielder after a Texas police department released a video of a domestic violence incident for which the player completed a probationary sentence. Kate Has Your Wednesday NightÃâà...
San Diego Free Press
February 27, 2018
Despite his incredible influence on the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, Bayard Rustin lived in the shadows. An openly gay man, he'd been arrested for engaging in public homosexuality, and, before his activist involvement, had identified as a member of the Communist Party — both of which offendedÃâà...
NBCNews.com
February 26, 2018
From 1960s civil rights activist Bayard Rustin to newly elected Minnesota councilwoman Andrea Jenkins, black LGBTQ Americans have long been blazing trails and making history. “As long as there have been black people, there have been black LGBTQ and same-gender-loving people,” David J. Johns,Ãâà...
LGBTQ Nation
February 24, 2018
The 1963 March on Washington was a pivotal demonstration in the nation's civil-rights history. It drew thousands of people to a peaceful protest of racial inequality and injustice. Its organizer was Bayard Rustin (1912-87). Openly gay in an era far different from today, Rustin took his place among the marchÃâà...
Black Mountain News
February 20, 2018
During his 60-year career as an activist, organizer and "troublemaker," Bayard Rustin formulated many of the strategies that propelled the American civil rights movement. A film about his work, "Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin," illuminates the life of the visionary activist and strategist who hasÃâà...
TheGrio (blog)
February 15, 2018
Black History Month is all about celebrating our best and brightest for their history-making contributions to Black culture and society at large. Special tributes occur for well-known figures such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Jackie Robinson and George Washington Carver eachÃâà...
Windy City Times
February 13, 2018
Look at Bayard Rustin's career as a civil-rights leader and one question becomes glaringly apparent: Why isn't he a household name alongside Rosa Parks and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King? His accomplishments paved the way for both lions of the civil-rights movement: —In 1942, Rustin refused toÃâà...
