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Michelle Obama Gets Personal in New 'When We All Vote' Message

Election day is a little more than two months away, and—as you’re probably well aware—this one is kind of a big deal. This year’s midterms have taken on the kind of urgency we typically see in presidential elections. And why wouldn’t it? Americans have seen migrant children torn away from their families and thrown into…

By

Anne Branigin

Published

August 22, 2018
Black Excellence, Culture

Barack Obama Is Out Here Looking Like Our Favorite Uncle Jamming Out at the OTRII Concert in Washington, D.C.

So on Saturday night, Twitter lit up with videos of our favorite uncle, forever President Barack Obama, jamming it out during the D.C. leg of Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s On the Run II Tour. I was actually also there, but I ain’t got the kind of coint that supports seeing Beyoncé as well as the Obamas…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

July 30, 2018
Politics

Unfortunately, Michelle Obama is Not Running For President, But She's All About Voting

Our forever first lady, Michelle LeVaughn Robinson Obama, aka the literal manifestation of black girl magic, and exhibit A-Z of why you should listen to and trust black women, has launched an initiative to encourage the youth to vote. Look at who your president currently is. Voting is important! November midterm elections are well on…

By

Danielle Young

Published

July 21, 2018
Entertainment, Music

There Is Only 1 Thing that Can Make a Beyoncé Concert Better: Michelle Obama

What a time to be in Paris. As even the most sports-averse among us might have found out by now, the city was a whole lit-uation on Sunday as France saw their national soccer team, Les Bleus, take home the World Cup for the second time in 20 years. But that wasn’t the only blessing…

By

Anne Branigin

Published

July 16, 2018
Beauty + Style

Yes, We Do Care: Michelle Obama’s Stylist and Several Designers Remind Us to Care About What We Wear

“Barack and I knew very early that we would be measured by a different yardstick. Making mistakes was not an option for us. Not that we didn’t make mistakes, but we had to be good—no, we had to be outstanding—at everything we did. … When you’re the first, you’re the one that’s laying the red…

By

Maiysha Kai

Published

June 26, 2018
Michelle Obama’s Memoir Will Be a ‘Rehumanization Effort’

Former First lady Michelle Obama told the 2018 American Library Association Annual Conference audience in New Orleans that her upcoming memoir, Becoming, will be a “rehumanization effort” in which she shares the “ordinariness of a very extraordinary story” that she hopes will give voice to people who feel voiceless, the Associated Press reports. The memoir,…

By

Terrell Jermaine Starr

Published

June 23, 2018
Beauty + Style

Daddy’s Girl: Words to Make the Men Who Raise Queens Feel Like Kings

Father’s Day is here. It’s time to let the love flow in both word and deed in celebration of real men. I’m talking about men who do the work of raising their own biological children and even sometimes, perhaps more significantly, the kids who are not theirs by blood but who belong to them through…

By

Veronica Webb

Published

June 17, 2018
School Board Member Blames Her Racist Facebook Posts on Michelle Obama, NFL Protesters

After being called out for a collection of racist social media posts echoing the sentiments of noted Twitter political pundit Roseanne Barr, a board member of Alabama’s second-largest school district passionately explained herself by citing Michelle Obama’s unpatriotic hate for America and kneeling NFL players’ insistence on disrespecting the troops. Donna Pike, a member of…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

June 14, 2018
Culture

Here’s Why Black Women Take the High Road

This week, Roseanne Barr—a bona fide racist—was outed, fired and hung out to dry. Former Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett was the butt of a tasteless, racist joke. And at MSNBC’s Everyday Racism town hall, Jarrett had a few words for Barr. “I think we have to turn it into a teaching moment,” Jarrett said.…

By

Felice León

Published

June 1, 2018
Entertainment

Our Forever First Lady, Michelle Obama, Reveals Stunning Cover for Upcoming Memoir, Becoming

Former First lady Michelle Obama unveiled the book cover for her upcoming and highly anticipated memoir, Becoming, on Instagram Thursday, stunning us with the cover photo for the book jacket, which was selected from a photo shoot done earlier this year in Washington, D.C., by renowned portrait photographer Miller Mobley. Obama appeared to have been…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

May 24, 2018