Talk focuses on civil, gay rights leader Bayard Rustin

Playwright and performance poet Al Letson (shown at right) will give a talk, “Bayard Rustin: The Untold story of a Civil and Gay Rights Pioneer” on Monday, Feb. 27, at 6 p.m., at Bloomsburg University's Multicultural Center.

Bayard Rustin (1912-1987) was a leader of the early civil rights movement in the late 1940s through 1960s, focused his attention on economic justice in the late 60s and 70s, and became a spokesperson for gay and lesbian issues in the 1970s.

Letson is the host of a public radio program, State of the Re:Union, which travels to an American city or town to discover the interesting things that people are doing to create community and transcend their circumstances, while placing focus on the vital cultural narratives.

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Talking Business

Bloomsburg University faculty member Margaret O’Connor will speak on “Teaching Entrepreneurship in Poland, 2011” Wednesday, Feb. 29, at 4:30 p.m. in the Student Services Center 004. The event is a part of Bloomsburg University’s Institute for Culture and Society. O’Connor, associate professor of business education and information and technology management, will share her perspective as an American professor abroad and the challenges she faced while teaching an entrepreneurship course at the University of Warsaw.