All posts tagged "bayard rustin"
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Colman Domingo’s Post-Oscar Nomination Career Boom Is Here
Colman Domingo is set to co-star in the Michael Jackson biopic, and is writing, directing, and starring in an upcoming Nat King Cole movie.
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NBJC Calls for Bayard Rustin to be Honored with a Stamp
NBJC is asking the U.S. Postal Service to issue a stamp honoring the openly gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
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‘Rustin’ Review: Truth Be Told
A stirring portrait of an oft-unsung civil rights hero and queer trailblazer, 'Rustin' doesn't deliver on all of its promise.
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LGBTQ Advocates Call For Stamp Honoring Bayard Rustin
In commemoration of Black queer civil rights leader Bayard Rustin’s birthday, on March 17, the National Black Justice Coalition, the nation’s largest Black LGBTQ civil...
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California posthumously pardons gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin
A new initiative will allow Californians convicted under the now-defunct sodomy laws to apply for, and obtain, pardons
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California lawmakers seek pardon for gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin
A pair of California lawmakers have asked Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to issue a posthumous pardon to Bayard Rustin, an openly gay civil rights leader...
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We’re Here… We’re Queer… We March…
It might seem obvious, even ordinary now—a half-century and many such events later—but Bayard Rustin’s work in organizing the first protest of many hundreds of...
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Our Gay Capital: A brief history of the LGBT movement in Washington D.C.
A brief history of the LGBT movement in Washington D.C.
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Obama honors Bayard Rustin and Sally Ride with Medal of Freedom
Two of America’s gay heroes, civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and astronaut Sally Ride, were posthumously awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor by President Barack...
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Sniping on the Mount
After the Aug. 24 rally at the Lincoln Memorial honoring the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, some people complained...
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MOW50: 5 Things to See and Do
“There’s so much going on in the days leading up to the 28th,” Terri Harris Reed of the George Washington University tells Metro Weekly. She’s...
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Celebrating Bayard Rustin
On behalf of the National Black Justice Coalition and the black lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, I applaud President Barack Obama for giving the...
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Marching On
The LGBT community and its struggles for equality will share the stage alongside other communities advocating for social justice as community organizers, activists and civil...
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Frontline Figure
Eleanor Holmes Norton was 26 years old when somewhere around 250,000 people descended on the nation's capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and...
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Obama to award Presidential Medal of Freedom to Bayard Rustin
The late Bayard Rustin, a gay veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, will be awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor by President Barack Obama later...
