‘Rustin’ examines key organizer Bayard Rustin as he organizes the legendary March on Washington. The film will be released in theaters on Nov. 3 and on Netflix on Nov. 17.
Marking the 60th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Netflix has dropped the first trailer for the upcoming biopic of the historic event’s organizer, Bayard Rustin. West Philly native Colman Domingo stars inThe film, directed by George C. Wolfe and executive produced by Barack and Michelle Obama, will be released in select theaters on Nov. 3 before landing on Netflix on Nov. 17.
Rustin was a key figure in the civil rights movement who promoted nonviolence, which was rooted in his Quaker upbringing. His grandparents, Janifer and Julia Rustin, raised him and his 11 siblings in the Philadelphia suburb, in a home where Black community leaders including W.E.B. Du Bois and Mary McLeod Bethune, thanks to his grandmother’s participation in the NAACP. He graduated from West Chester High School before briefly attending Cheyney State Teachers College and other colleges.
In the trailer, Rep. Adam Clayton Powell tells Rustin: “Your mere presence would derail the fight for racial justice in this country a good 10, 15 years.” Rustin replies, “On the day that I was born Black, I was also born a homosexual…They either believe in freedom and justice for all, or they do not.”, Domingo, a queer Black man, plays his first leading role in a feature film. Aside from sharing Philadelphia-area roots, both Domingo and Rustin share a love for musical theater.
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