Rustin Review: Colman Domingo Gives An Oscar-Winning Performance In Flimsy Biopic

When people reflect on the 1963 March on Washington for jobs and freedom, they think of the famous and historic “I Have a Dream” speech from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., not of Bayard Rustin, the central figure in director George C. Wolfe’s biopic Rustin. The march is also credited with assisting the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. With all the important moments that came from the march, it’s hard to imagine (depending on your knowledge of buried U.S. history) how one man’s influence and direct involvement could have been erased until only ten years ago. In 2013, President Barack Obama posthumously awarded Bayard Rustin with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.