Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
Colman Domingo to Play Gay Civil Rights Icon Bayard Rustin in Biopic
Candyman, Advocate cover star Colman Domingo is stepping into the role of gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin in the eponymous Rustin.
The film is being developed by Higher Ground, the production company created by Michelle and Barack Obama, and will be released by Netflix.
Rustin was a close advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and was hugely influential during the civil rights movement. He was the principal organizer of King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, as well as the architect of the March on Washington in 1963.
Rustin was also a gay man who was forced to take a less public role in the movement because of a 1953 arrest for having sex with a man.
