Throwback to the Power Hour where Bayard Rustin's partner (Walter Naegle) met Sen. Scott Wiener, who advocated for and achieved Rustin's posthumous pardon regarding his 1953 conviction under homophobic "morals" laws, with a context from Valerie Jarretti on President Obama's decision to posthumously award Rustin the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013 and a clip of the ceremony itself.
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