Michelle Obama
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Black Journalists Group Backs Reporter Over Furious BET
Givhan Was Part of Event With Michelle Obama Byron Allen Acquires the Weather Channel One Cop in Fatal Sacramento Shooting Is Black Some Led Readers Astray During Austin Bombings Where Are the Black Photographers? Detroit Anchor Out After Harassment Charges Don Imus Retiring After 50 Years in Radio Fourth Mexican Journalist Killed This Year In…
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Black Journalists Organization Backs Robin Givhan Over Michelle Obama Piece
The National Association of Black Journalists wrote a letter Saturday in support of Washington Post journalist Robin Givhan after she wrote a piece on former first lady Michelle Obama’s talk at a BET event that many of the guests assumed was off-the-record. Givhan, a Pulitzer Prize winner, was invited to moderate a panel of fashion-industry…
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They Said It Was Private. She Said It Was on-the-Record. The Reality? It’s Complicated
In the nine years of BET Networks’ Leading Women Defined summit, Jeanine Liburd, chief marketing and communications officer at BET, had never seen anything like this. A journalist, Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion critic Robin Givhan of the Washington Post, was booted from this conference, a first for the gathering of professional women. These women, about 150…
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How Popular Is Michelle Obama? So Popular That the Smithsonian Had to Move Her Portrait Because of ‘High Volume of Visitors’
Who wouldn’t want to go see the real first lady Michelle Obama, even if that meant “settling” for an amazing, intricate portrait rather than the real deal? As it turns out, everyone was just waiting to see the unique portrait Baltimore artist Amy Sherald painted of the former FLOTUS after it was unveiled at the…
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Michelle Obama Meets Little Girl Who Thought She Was a Queen and They Have a Dance Party, Naturally
What happens when royalty meets royalty? Well, you have to throw a little dance party, of course, as is only fitting. Queen Michelle Obama and Princess Parker Curry—the little girl who thought that Obama was a queen upon viewing her portrait at the National Portrait Gallery—got to meet each other Tuesday. The first lady shared…
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‘Don’t Wind Up on Page Six,’ Michelle Obama Told Malia as She Headed Off to College … and, Welp
Part of being a child/teen/young adult is often doing exactly the opposite of what your parents advised or suggested. Sometimes it’s not even on purpose, but, you know, shit happens. Turns out the former first family knows about these struggles as well, after Michelle Obama revealed one of the bits of advice she gave to…
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If You Thought Black Panther’s Numbers Were Sick, Wait Until the Release of Michelle Obama’s Memoir This Fall
Can you say “blockbuster”? Well, Michelle Obama can. And will. Her office on Sunday announced the publication date of the former first lady’s memoir, Becoming, and we would bet our firstborn that the book is sure to put up Black Panther numbers upon its Nov. 13 release. Michelle Obama herself took to Twitter Sunday, saying…