Film/TV

Rustin

2023

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Film Review

The Obamas’ “Rustin”: Fun Tricks You Can Do on the Past

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

by Adolph Reed, Jr. via Nonsite on December 16, 2023
Film Review

Bayard Rustin Was No Hollywood Figurehead

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

by Adolph Reed Jr. via The Nation on December 12, 2023
Film Review

Eclipsed in His Era, Bayard Rustin Gets to Shine in Ours

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?

by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on November 6, 2023
Q&A

George C. Wolfe Would Not Be Dismissed

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

by Vinson Cunningham, George C. Wolfe via The New Yorker on November 5, 2023

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Bayard Rustin speaks from the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington.

Bayard Rustin Showed the Promise and Pitfalls of Coalition Politics

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.

by Chris Maisano via Jacobin on December 9, 2023

Still from "Rustin" film, on steps of Lincoln Memorial.

The Real History Behind Netflix's 'Rustin' Movie

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

by Zachary Clary via Smithsonian on November 2, 2023

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