The Good News-Bayard Rustin

By Dr. Benjamin Franklin Chavis Jr.

Published July 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM EDT

One of the chief architects and organizers of the transformative 1963 civil rights March on Washington, DC was Bayard Rustin. The GOOD news is the legacy of the leadership of Bayard Rustin is today receiving a more detailed focus from historians and other scholars.

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Dr. Benjamin Franklin Chavis Jr.

Dr. Chavis is African American civil rights leader and icon, United Church of Christ (UCC) ordained minister, author, journalist, organic chemist, environmentalist, global entrepreneur, and currently President and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) based in Washington, DC since 2014.

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