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Bayard Rustin shaped the civil rights movement, yet history often overlooked him for being gay.
Social justice advocates are creating a LGBTQ+ history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil ...
Wikimedia Commons/Warren K. Leffler, U.S. News & World Report The 1968 Poor People’s Campaign Martin Luther King Jr. planned ...
Civil rights icon and American hero John Lewis died five years ago, on July 17, 2020, but his legacy of making “good trouble” ...
Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil ...
This fall, a digital archive will open access to one of the Civil Rights Movement’s most overlooked leaders: Bayard Rustin.
Now, in the very same week when he dispatches the National Guard and the Marines to Los Angeles to silence protesters’ righteous cries for justice in the face of his cruel assaults on our immigrant ...
On Aug. 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I have a dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial as part of the March on Washington.
But if we insist on quoting Martin Luther King Jr., vaunting the freedoms secured for us by the labor and civil rights movements, then we embarrass ourselves in the eyes of history when we attack ...
To honor the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, the national park named after Martin Luther King Jr. hosted a day of programming.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s family on the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington.