Bayard Rustin Coalition - BRC LGBTQ

06/03/2026

Legendary singer Peabo Bryson has died after suffering a stroke, according to a representative for the artist.

06/03/2026

Agreed

We dislike when Black people call other Black people the N-word because it reflects a legacy of miseducation, psychological conditioning, and socially engineered behavior rooted in white supremacist ideology. That word was created to dehumanize Black people, reduce our humanity, and justify violence, exclusion, and oppression. When we normalize using it against one another, we recycle the same language and mindset that was historically used to strip us of dignity and self-worth.

To me, true liberation requires rejecting the language of oppression, not embracing it as culture. The way we speak to one another shapes how we see ourselves, our history, and our collective value as a people.

06/02/2026

MAKESHIFT MESSIAHS traces the systematic, repeatable process the American Right has perfected for transforming political leaders into religious figures who demand worship rather than accountability. Through meticulous research and prophetic analysis, Wilson documents how this machinery was built, tested, and industrialized across three generations:

Ronald Reagan – whose posthumous canonization proved the concept
Donald Trump – who demanded real-time sanctification as God's chosen instrument
Charlie Kirk – who built the machinery to mass-produce the next generation of political messiahs.

This isn't a conspiracy theory. It's a documented pattern. Wilson, an ordained minister and public theologian, exposes the infrastructure—the think tanks, media empires, religious organizations, and legislative strategies—that systematically elevate politicians above democratic accountability by framing them as divinely appointed saviors.

The machinery operates in five stages:

Identification – Finding leaders who can be molded into symbols
Elevation – Raising them above normal political scrutiny
Sanctification – Declaring their mandate divine and opposition demonic
Protection – Reframing all criticism as persecution
Replication – Repeating the process with the next chosen figure
Drawing on liberation theology, womanist thought, and q***r theology, Wilson issues an urgent warning: The machinery is now self-sustaining. It no longer needs architects. It runs on autopilot, accelerating with each cycle—producing a generation trained to seek authoritarian certainty rather than democratic accountability.

January 6, 2021, wasn't an aberration. It was a preview.

The pattern is complete. The machinery is operational. The window for resistance is closing.

This is not a warning about what might happen. This is documentation of what's happening right now.

Watch this video on HeyGen

06/02/2026

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH FROM BAYARD RUSTIN COALITION!
"When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free."
--President Barack Obama

06/01/2026

from The African History Network

New Study suggests, nearly 50% of the Black-White mortality gap is linked to chronic stress from racism, trauma, and economic hardship. This confirms what we’ve long known: Racism isn’t just a social issue. Over time, this injustice eats away at our health, our hope, and our lives. This is a Public Health Crisis that MUST be addressed!

Nearly half of the mortality gap between Black and White adults can be traced to the cumulative toll of a lifetime of stress and heightened inflammation, a new study published Monday shows.

The study, published in JAMA Network Open, bolsters the body of evidence showing that chronic stress takes a biological toll that shortens lives.

“It’s important to be empirically demonstrated,” said Ryan Bogdan, the study’s senior author and a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Researchers tracked the prevalence of two proteins linked to inflammation in the body and tied it to enduring discrimination and related social challenges. The measurement captures more comprehensively “the aftermath” of stressful events, he said.

06/01/2026

No lies told!

05/26/2026

Memorial Day 2026

I’m not going to tell you Memorial Day is “more than” hot dogs, beach balls, barbecue, or the unofficial start of summer. People deserve joy. Lord knows we all need a little of it right now.

But I will remind you where this day came from.

Memorial Day began as Decoration Day after the Civil War, when formerly enslaved Black Americans decorated the graves of Union soldiers who died helping destroy slavery. Over time, it became a broader day of remembrance for all American war dead. I still remember hearing it called Decoration Day.

At its core, this is a day to honor people who never came home.

And sadly, the world seems determined to keep creating more graves.

In Ukraine, citizen soldiers stand with their backs against the wall against a cruel and relentless Russian invasion. In Palestine, civilians are dying amid devastating warfare and generations of political failure, violence, and retaliation. In Iran, ordinary people remain trapped between authoritarian power, global pressure, and the deadly games of nations addicted to oil, influence, and control. The whole world feels like a powder keg waiting for one spark too many.

And here at home, we often seem at war with ourselves. Unstable people get access to weapons of war and turn schools, churches, stores, and public spaces into killing fields for some twisted grievance rooted in hate, fear, or bigotry.

I saw enough of war in Vietnam. Back then, I naïvely believed humanity might finally learn something from all that death and destruction.

But no. As a species, we seem to love war.

The tragic thing is that bullets don’t care why they’re fired. They don’t know patriotism from hatred. They don’t know invasion from self-defense. They certainly don’t know the difference between a soldier and a child.

Bullets only know flesh and how to destroy it.

Still, I want joy for you today. Truly.

So here’s to the sunshine, the music, the cold beer, the cookouts, and the people we love enough to gather with while we still can.

Just remember.

Honor the dead. Respect the sacrifice. Value human life while it’s still here.

— MVD / BRC

05/25/2026

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Happy Birthday Actress
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Happy Birthday To The Beautiful Actress ! She Is 83 Today!