When “Rustin,” a film about civil rights activist Bayard Rustin told with clarity and conviction, premiered a few weeks ago at the Telluride Film Festival, it received an enthusiastic reception, ...
Colman Domingo — with Oscar, BAFTA and SAG Awards nominations under his belt for his powerful portrait of influential civil rights organizer Bayard Rustin in the Netflix movie Rustin — wants people to ...
The idea of Colman Domingo nabbing an Oscar nom isn’t unwelcome at all, and the vehicle that might earn him that accolade is Rustin (now on Netflix), a biopic of somewhat-unsung (but becoming less so) ...
“Rustin” is a thrilling, defining moment for the gay civil rights activist history books too often ignore, with a Colman Domingo performance that should have Oscar calling. Entertainment Critic On ...
This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, professor of television studies at Rowan University. Actor Colman Domingo has been nominated for an Oscar for his title role in the film "Rustin," the biopic ...
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 ...
Six decades after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in front of an estimated 250,000 people on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, a new Netflix film is shining a ...
The civil rights leader and organizer of the March on Washington is the focus of a new biopic. Here’s how it stacks up against archival images. By Tiffany Martinbrough As an adolescent, Bayard Rustin ...
Every year, Americans remember the life of the man became a symbol of courage and struggle. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life has been celebrated in much great literature: My colleague Carolyn Kellogg ...