Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Remembering civil rights activist Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin, a member of the LGBTQ community, was posthumously pardoned by Governor Newsom two weeks ago. In 1953, he was arrested in Pasadena for having sex in a parked car. He served 60 days in prison.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readBayard Rustin, a member of the LGBTQ community, was posthumously pardoned by Governor Newsom two weeks ago. In 1953, he was arrested in Pasadena for having sex in a parked car. He served 60 days in prison. Rustin became a major civil rights activist. He organized Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington in 1963.
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Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Michell Eloy
Former Producer/Line Editor, Press Play
Amy Ta
Digital News & Culture Editor
Brenda Stevenson
professor of history and African American studies at UCLA; author of “The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots”
The full episode
4 of 5‘Gay Like Me’- 0:00The drop in white collar crime prosecutions, and Justice Department priorities
- 9:17How Michael Milken turned his life around after going to prison
- 17:32Richie Jackson: It’s tougher to be gay in Trump era than 1980s
- 32:17Remembering civil rights activist Bayard RustinYou’re reading this
- 42:38Microsoft wants to go carbon negative. What does that mean?