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Because same-sex marriage was illegal at the time, Rustin legally adopted Naegle in 1982 (an instance of same-sex adult adoption). The two were together for a decade until Rustin's death in 1987. [8] Rustin's obituary in The New York Times does not mention the partnership, describing Naegle as his "administrative assistant and adopted son". [9]
On Feb. 10, 2007, an Illinois senator announced he would seek the Democratic nomination in the 2008 presidential election. This is that historic speech. Barack Obama announces presidential ...
Obama previously served as a U.S. senator representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004. Obama was born in Honolulu , Hawaii. He graduated from Columbia University in 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and later worked as a community organizer in Chicago .
At the White House ceremony on November 20, 2013, President Obama presented Rustin's award to Walter Naegle, his partner of ten years at the time of Rustin's death. [ 7 ] In 2014, Rustin was one of the inaugural honorees in the Rainbow Honor Walk , a walk of fame in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood noting LGBTQ people who have "made ...
In President Obama's first State of the Union address, he tried to capture the public's anger toward Wall Street while defending his decision to bail it out. He argued that while his rescue of the ...
President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and "Rustin" star Colman Domingo made a surprise appearance at the opening night of the inaugural HBCU First Look Film Festival in Washington, D.C.
Obama and Raul Castro reversed over 60 years of tension between the U.S. and Cuba by restoring diplomatic ties. 4. He urged states in 2013 to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.
Frances Fox Piven, professor of political science and sociology at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York [373] Samantha Power , professor at Harvard University and Pulitzer Prize -winner [ 200 ]