When civil rights leaders met at the Roosevelt Hotel in Harlem in early July 1963 to hammer out the ground rules by which they would work together to organise the March on Washington there was really only one main sticking point: Bayard Rustin. … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: Black LGBT individuals who changed history
Bayard Rustin
Tuesday Evening Thread: Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine…And Neither is Your Civil Rights Movement
by sagittarius I am going to stir the funky and murky waters surrounding this Jason Collins debacle. I am going to take it ALL the way there. GN has been the canary in the coal mine for nearly a year about the attempted usurpation of Black folks Civil Rights legacy - and she's been absolutely spot on. I would also suggest that the motive is deeper - and more sinister - than … [Read more...] about Tuesday Evening Thread: Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine…And Neither is Your Civil Rights Movement