Rustin Yingying Zhao

At a time when civil rights are being challenged and some of the 60-year-old battles are being waged again, last Saturday night, Yale Schwarzman Center (YSC) presented an early screening of ​“Rustin,” a film about an often-forgotten civil rights leader.

The Living Earth Show & Samuel Adams present 'Lyra'

Producer Bruce Cohen '83 brings film to Yale Schwarzman Center

Recorded live following the October 28, 2023, prerelease screening of the Netflix film Rustin - a conversation between Rustin producer Bruce Cohen '83, Rustin costume designer and co-chair of design at the David Geffen School of Drama Toni-Leslie James, and Yale African American Studies and American Studies professor Crystal Feimster.

Barack and Michelle Obama are executive producers on the film starring Colman Domingo and Chris Rock that will hit theaters and Netflix in November.

Screened at Yale’s Humanities Quadrangle, new film directed by Rebecca Miller ’84 features Peter Dinklage, Anne Hathaway, Marisa Tomei, and music by YSC artist-in-residence Bryce Dessner ’98 BA ’99 MM

'Rustin' film screening and conversation with producer Bruce Cohen '83

Rebecca Miller '85, filmaker & novelist
"She Came to Me" film screening

By Maura Tuffy