becoming michelle obama
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Barack Obama's New Memoir Reveals the Strain the Presidency Put on His Marriage
“If I were able to run for a third term, Michelle would divorce me.” Barack Obama told Jimmy Kimmel in October of 2016. It was obviously a joke, but in the first volume of the upcoming presidential memoir, A Promised Land, our favorite former president reveals that the pressures of the White House did add…
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A Promised Land: The First of Barack Obama's Two-Volume Presidential Memoirs to Be Published in November
If you’ve never stopped longing for the simpler, kinder, more rational time and place that was Barack Obama’s presidency, you are far from alone—and can soon take a deeper dive into the beloved president’s remarkable rise from civic-minded civilian to the highest office in the land. On Thursday, Penguin Random House announced that Obama’s highly…
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Becoming: Yes, Malia Obama Does 'Cry a Little Bit' Every Time She Hears a Stevie Wonder Song
Michelle Obama’s Becoming, the former first lady’s first chance to step into the spotlight in such an intimate way, is now available for our consumption. At the time of this blog’s publishing, I had just finished diving into Mrs. Obama’s Becoming myself and it’s a quick, nostalgic and endearing watch. In the doc, she reflects…
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'It's Getting Better All the Time': If We Can't Have Love Like Barack and Michelle Obama After 27 Years, We Don't Want It
Soul mates. Twin flames. #CouplesGoals. All of these phrases have been used to describe the most idyllic relationships, and could be used to describe Barack and Michelle Obama, who once again flagrantly waved their seemingly perfect marriage in our faces as they celebrated their 27th wedding anniversary on Thursday. Of course, we know no one’s…
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The Biggest Party of the Year, Made Even Better—Essence Fest Just Booked Our Forever First Lady!
What a time to be alive—and what a year to be at Essence Fest! The annual convention of black girl magic just announced a major coup: Essence’s December/January cover girl, Michelle Obama will be making her Essence Fest debut on July 6, 2019, at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome! The Glow Up and The Root will be…
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Texas Mayor, Mayor Pro-Tem Resign Amid Accusations of Using City Funds to See Michelle Obama
The mayor of a Texas town and the mayor pro-tem announced they were both “becoming” unemployed after they were accused of using more than $1,000 of the city’s funds to attend Michelle Obama’s book tour, prompting some residents of the north Texas town to defend the officials with the untested legal defense of: “I mean…It’s…
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Are People More Excited for Michelle Obama’s Book Than Sex? (Yes, Yes They Are)
An uproar has erupted in the literary world as Michelle Obama’s Becoming is poised to knock a veritable juggernaut of fine literature out of its spot as Amazon’s longest-running No. 1 best-selling book. Nah, I’m fucking with you—it was just Fifty Shades of Grey, a sweaty fan fiction account of a wispy white women and…