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Bayard Rustin: The man who transformed the civil rights movement

It was strategist Bayard Rustin – a pacifist and gay Black man – who organized the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I have a dream” speech. But Rustin’s role in transforming the civil rights movement has been largely forgotten. “Rustin,” a new film directed by George C. Wolfe and ... Read More »

U.S. and Israel have had “conversations like friends do on the hard questions,” Jake Sullivan says

National security adviser Jake Sullivan tells “Face the Nation” that the U.S. has pressed Israel to distinguish between Hamas and Palestinian civilians amid growing pressure to protect civilians in Gaza as Israel expands its raids. “We have conversations like friends do on the hard questions that I talked about before — on issues associated with humanitarian aid, on distinguishing between ... Read More »

For the love of bats

Texas millionaire David Bamberger was so enamored with the bats he saw at the renowned Bracken Cave Preserve outside San Antonio, and was so concerned about threats to the flying mammals’ natural habitat, that in the late 1990s he built the world’s largest manmade bat cave on his sprawling ranch near Johnson City. For a long time, no bats showed ... Read More »