I'm Rebecca Lervoy and this is You Can't Make This Up. Oh, you know, it's not.

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Oh, you know. You can't make this up is the podcast where we uncover the true stories behind your favorite

Netflix documentaries and films.

On today's episode, we take a closer look at the Netflix film, Rustin.

Facing racism and homophobia, activist Bayard Rustin helps change the course of civil rights

history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.

Today we'll turn things over to our friends at Netflix's The Official Rustin Podcast.

Each week journalist and author Travel Anderson builds a world of context by bringing insights,

anecdotes, and behind-the-scenes perspectives from the artist who made the film.

The series also features scholars, journalists, and activists as they wrestle with a legacy of Rustin,

one of the civil rights movement's most complicated and compelling figures.

In this episode of the podcast series, Travel talks with director George C. Wolf about his process for taking

a life and turning it into film.

And then actor Coleman Domingo about what it took to portray Rustin and the significance of a gay black man playing a gay black man on screen. Bring to you the executive director of the March on Washington, the man who organized this whole thing, Mr. Bayard Rustin. The first demand is that we have effective civil rights legislation, no compromise, and the right

to vote. What do you say? Hey there beautiful people, Travel Anderson here and welcome back to Rustin, the podcast, your personal companion to the film Rustin.

So far, we've talked a lot about Byard's Look.

We've talked about the women and young folks who actually made the

March on Washington come to life and now we're going to turn to Bayard himself.

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