Rustin: A Film by George C. Wolfe

<p>Thulani Davis is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar who is an associate professor and a Nellie Y. McKay Fellow in the African American Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has had a long career in journalism while creating work in poetry and theater that includes plays and libretti for four operas. She has written the scripts for several award-winning documentaries, including Louis Massiah’s <em>W. E. B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices</em> (1996) and Massiah’s short film <em>In Ragtime: James Reese Europe</em> (2011), and she developed the concept for Blackside’s series <em>I’ll Make Me a World: A Century of African American Arts</em> (1999). She also wrote the script for the narrative film <em>Paid in Full</em> (2002). She is the author of six books, the most recent of which is <em>The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom</em> (2022).</p>