Tag: Rustin, Bayard

Tracing the March on Washington Back to Where It Began, in Harlem

Before Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech to 250,000 people, a group of civil rights activists spent a summer planning an event many didn’t want to happen.

The Fiery Brilliance of Obama’s Lost Book Manuscript

At Harvard Law, he wrote a blistering manifesto he never published. Its searing advice could help Democrats escape their current political quagmire.