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Bayard Rustin film screening Wednesday at Bricolage
East Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | 4 months ago
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Wed., Feb. 27, the American Friends Service Committee presents a screening of Brother Outsider , a documentary about Bayard Rustin. Rustin was one of the organizers of 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, and was a leader in the nonviolent
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Ex-Pa. swim coach pleads to sex with team member
West Chester :: PA :: USA | 5 months ago
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Pa. (AP) A former suburban Philadelphia high school swim coach has pleaded guilty to engaging in an inappropriate sexual relationship with a member of his team. The Daily Local News of West Chester ( http://bit.ly/13EWBsi ) says 48-year-old Kenneth
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Gay couple behind effort to open LGBT museum in D.C.
Date :: Japan | 5 months ago
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Bayard Rustin, an African American scholar from eastern Pennsylvania, was on the front lines of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. He was a key organizer of bus segregation demonstrations in the South, the Southern Christian Leadership
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Re-scheduled Bayard Rustin Festival begins tonight
East Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | 7 months ago
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The program begins at 8 p.m. and is sponsored by the Pitt Mens' Study. Rustin, a mentor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, was openly gay in the 1950s, at great personal risk. (More info about Rustin, in an earlier post, is here .) The festival,
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Harvey J. Kaye: Time to March on Washington Again for Jobs and Freedom
Date :: Japan | 7 months ago
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Kaye is Professor of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and a member of the National Writers Union (UAW Local 1981) and the American Federation of Teachers. The author of "Thomas Paine and the Promise of America,"
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Festival honors civil-rights icon's centennial
East Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | 8 months ago
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But that's entirely appropriate at this week's Bayard Rustin Centennial Pittsburgh Festival and UN-Masked Conference. Rustin was the very influential if still little-known strategist and activist who mentored Martin Luther King, Jr., in nonviolence
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The price of a black president
Washington :: DC :: USA | 8 months ago
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As well they should, given the symbolic exceptionalism of his presidency and the modern Republican Party's utter disregard for economic justice, civil rights and the social safety net. But for those who had seen in President Obama's election the
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SCLC on the brink of absurdity
Six days before his death, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was, according to inner circle eye witness accounts, a very depressed man. He could not escape the depression anymore than he would be able to escape the sniper waiting for
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Rustin looks to keep Tenafly progressing
Tenafly :: NJ :: USA | over 1 year ago
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With Election Day on the horizon, Mayor Peter Rustin, Independent, hopes to add another four years to his eight year term as mayor. Rustin was the first independent mayor ever elected to office in Tenafly . He believes his position as an independent
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Lawmakers, LGBT Advocates Call For Inclusive Curriculum
New York City :: NY :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Queens City Council Member Daniel Dromm, who is openly gay, introduced a resolution asking the Department of Education to implement such a curriculum and acquire the textbooks needed to teach it. The announcement came on National Coming Out Day, an
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