Rustin

Release Date:  11/3/23 – Limited; 11/17/23 – Netflix
Genre:  Biopic/Drama
Rating:   PG-13
Director:  George C. Wolfe
Studio(s):  Higher Ground Productions, Netflix

Cast:  Colman Domingo (Bayard Rustin), Chris Rock (Roy Wilkins), Glynn Turman (A. Philip Randolph), Aml Ameen (Martin Luther King, Jr.), CCH Pounder (Anna Arnold Hedgeman), Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Michael Potts (Cleveland Robinson), Bill Irwin (A. J. Muste). Jeffrey Wright (Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.), Audra McDonald (Ella Baker).

Story:  The powerful story of Bayard Rustin, the openly gay civil rights leader who dedicated his life to a quest for racial equality. Rustin follows the activist as he takes on the mammoth task of turning the 1963 March on Washington from dream into reality, all while contending with racism and homophobia in the 1960s. The film is produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company Higher Ground Productions.  Source:  Netflix.com.