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Colman Domingo gives an electric performance as the unsung civil-rights firebrand Bayard Rustin in a film that's at once urgent, rousing and alive.

Bayard Rustin is the unsung hero of the Civil Rights era, the mastermind of the 1963 March on Washington and Martin Luther King's closest confidante—until deemed a liability to "the movement" because he was a gay ex-Communist. George C. Wolfe's period film puts character before characters and feelings before history lessons, presenting political organizing as something akin to an action-adventure movie. 

A new generation of Black organizers flock to Rustin, eager to pioneer new strategies (and have fun, like Rustin). Anyone who has seen Selma and Till and who thinks they already know this era needn't hesitate: this one is different. Colman Domingo is spectacular in the title role, bursting with intellect and charm, and Chris Rock, Jeffrey Wright and Audra McDonald round out the cast. Premiering at the Telluride Film Festival, this long-overdue biopic from writers Julian Breece (When They See Us) and Dustin Lance Black (Milk) ensures his legacy will be forgotten no longer. 

Closed Captioned.

Discussion follows with Professor Darryl Barthe and Professor Ralph Craig III.

Programmed in conjunction with Dartmouth's Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration.

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