In celebration of Pride Month and Juneteenth, Baker Donelson is pleased to announce a special screening and discussion of "Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin", an award-winning documentary that illuminates the life and work of Bayard Rustin – a visionary activist and strategist who has been called "the invisible man" and "the unknown hero" of the civil rights movement. This webinar will feature clips from the film along with a conversation about Rustin's life and legacy by Bennett Singer, the film's co-director, and Walter Naegle, who appears in the documentary and was Rustin's life partner. Michael Fox of the San Francisco Film Society summed up the film's significance this way: "For those who believe that individuals were expunged from history only in the former Soviet Union, "Brother Outsider" is a mesmerizing eye-opener …. The film inspires audiences to carry on Rustin's worldwide crusade against injustice, discrimination, and poverty."
This event will be in-person for those in the Atlanta area and virtually for all other attendees. Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees at the conclusion of the event. Following the event, a custom link will be provided to a two-week streaming window, during which the full feature-length version of the documentary will be available to watch on demand.
Continuing Education Credit:
This program is being submitted for 1.0 hour of CLE credit in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. Materials will be provided for submissions to additional states. In order to receive CLE credit, participants must attend the program live. CLE credit cannot be awarded to viewers of the recorded program.
Please submit any questions to the DEI team at diversityinclusionteam@bakerdonelson.com. Baker Donelson is proud to offer this program to our employees and clients. We hope you'll join us to watch and discuss this inspiring documentary!
Bennett Singer is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker whose documentaries have been shown at The Smithsonian, The Kennedy Center, The United Nations, and The British Museum, as well as by organizations including The NAACP, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Campaign. After serving as an associate producer on the Emmy-winning PBS series "Eyes on the Prize II", he went on to co-direct "Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin". Additional credits include "Electoral Dysfunction", a PBS documentary about voting rights, and "Cured", which won the American Historical Association's award for best historical documentary. He is the former Executive Editor of TIME Magazine's education program and the author or editor of five books.
Walter Naegle was Bayard Rustin's life partner for the last decade of Rustin's life. In 2013, he accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom that Barack Obama bestowed posthumously on Rustin at a White House ceremony. Walter serves as Executive Director of The Bayard Rustin Fund, a non-profit organization dedicated to sustaining Rustin's vision of a more peaceful and equitable world. He is the co-author of Troublemaker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Rustin, an acclaimed biography for young people, and was a historical consultant on "Rustin", the 2023 Netflix biopic for which Colman Domingo was nominated for an Academy Award.