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Walter Naegle (born 1949) [1] is an American artist and photographer who is the surviving partner of late American Civil Rights leader Bayard Rustin, and the executive director of the Bayard Rustin Fund, [2] which commemorates Rustin's life, values, and legacy. [3]
The film relies on interviews, archival film footage, still photographs, and Rustin's own recordings from the 1970s. The film documents his high school days, his move to Harlem in 1937 where he joined Josh White and His Carolinians to support himself, his arrest in 1940 for being a conscientious objector, his association with the Communist Party, and his history as a homosexual, for which he ...
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 ...
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.
Alam's critically-acclaimed novel was on former President Obama's 2021 summer reading list, and Esmail shared that as the film was adapted into a suspenseful screenplay, the American politician ...
Barack Obama. Hannes Magerstaedt/Getty Images Update 12/29/23, 10:42 a.m.: Barack Obama added one last movie to his favorites of 2023 list in the final days of the year — but alas, it’s still ...
Obama was also a member of the "choom gang", a self-named group of friends that spent time together and occasionally smoked marijuana. [45] [46] Obama has said that it was a serious mistake. At the Saddleback Civil Presidential Forum, Barack Obama identified his high-school drug use as his greatest moral failure. [47]
January 20, 2009 was a cold day in Washington D.C., with temperatures hovering right below freezing, but an estimated 1.8 million people flooded onto the National Mall to see incoming President ...