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Michelle Obama

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…

By

Danielle C. Belton

Published

March 23, 2018
‘Young People Like You Have Led the Way in Making America Better’: Barack and Michelle Obama Write Letter to Parkland, Fla., Students

In the wake of the horrific Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama sent the students a heartfelt, handwritten note, expressing how inspired they were by the determination and resilience of student protesters demanding gun control. The letter, dated…

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Breanna Edwards

Published

March 22, 2018
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…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

March 20, 2018
Beauty + Style

Black Girls Rock! And Founder and DJ Beverly Bond Does, Too

This International Women’s Day, the ultimate present arrived in my mailbox, gifted by my favorite person: me! It was a brand-spanking-new, hardcover edition of my new favorite coffee-table book, Black Girls Rock! Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth. The book is a compilation of first person essays, insights and affirmations from a multigenerational cross section…

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Maiysha Kai

Published

March 9, 2018
Entertainment

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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Breanna Edwards

Published

March 6, 2018
Royalty, Royalty, Royalty: Adorable Little Girl Entranced by Michelle Obama Portrait Thought the First Lady Was a ‘Queen’

By now you’ve likely seen the image of a 2-year-old black girl in a pink-and-red parka, her hair separated into two precise puffs, looking up in awe at a portrait of Michelle Obama at the National Portrait Gallery. That girl was little Parker Curry. And her mother, Jessica Curry, told CNN on Saturday that Parker…

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Anne Branigin

Published

March 4, 2018
Entertainment

‘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…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

March 1, 2018
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…

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Angela Helm

Published

February 26, 2018
Culture, Media

Lerone Bennett, Ebony Editor and Historian, Dies

One of 20th Century’s Most Influential Journalists N.Y. Times’ Conservative Hire Out in Half a Day Ethiopian Journalist Freed After 7 Years in Prison Sensitivity Training to Follow Advertiser Backlash Trump’s Losing Effort to ‘Keep America White’ NAHJ to Meet With Editor Over Cartoon Monica Richardson Gets Expanded Duties at AJC Critics Weigh In on…

By

Richard Prince

Published

February 16, 2018
Entertainment

Michelle and Barack Obama Are So Damn Cute and My Bitter, Cold Heart Can’t Take It

A list of real couples who are actual #RelationshipGoals: Michelle and Barack Obama. Dassit. There are no others who can compare. These two are just cute as all shit in their open and affectionate display of love for each other even after all these years, and it’s a miracle to my old, bitter, cynical heart…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

February 14, 2018