First Lady
First Lady Michelle Obama can’t seem to catch a break. First, PETA was all over her for continuing the White House’s annual Easter Egg Roll. Now parents of Kansas high school students are up in arms because she’s slated to speak at their graduation. Can you believe that? The Root has the story: Some parents […]
First Lady Michelle Obama has been criticized for ordering a highly caloric meal, at a combined count of 1,700 calories, at a new Shake Shack in Washington D.C. Mrs. Obama, who is the spearhead of the Let’s Move! campaign, geared toward the end to childhood obesity and exercise awareness, has been criticized for ordering a […]
CAPE TOWN — First Lady Michelle Obama’s recent trip to South Africa has garnered international awareness and praise, bypassing controversial topics such as the question of whether or not the U.S. has done enough to end poverty and war on the continent. Instead, Mrs. Obama managed to inspire South Africans, through relating to their story […]
Rush Limbaugh said Friday that the media is allowing Michelle Obama to take a vacation as a form of reparations for “our slave past.”
You’ve probably heard by now that Michelle Obama is out of touch, apathetic, or simply selfish for taking a four-day jaunt to Spain to show her daughter some culture. Andrea Tantaros over at the New York Post spent a lot of time on Thursday penning an editorial accusing Obama of being a “modern-day Marie Antoinette”—tone-deaf […]
From BVBlackSpin.com: First Lady Michelle Obama is tackling childhood obesity with the launch of the nationwide Let’s Move campaign and its new enhanced website.
WASHINGTON – Michelle Obama’s predecessors have carved out enough different roles as first lady that she is now free to fashion the job in a way that suits her. The first lady will take her time defining her new role, but already she’s dropping clues.
From JANELLE JOLLEY at theroot.com: My erstwhile African-American-studies-minored self would love nothing more than to publish a dissertation on why <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/11/18/michelles_booty/index.html" target="_blank">this</a></span> piece in Salon, written by Erin Aubry Kaplan of the <em>Los Angeles Times</em>, is destructive, superficial and historically unsound. But what would be the point? I would say how dare you continue the objectification of a black woman, but mostly what I want to do is scream in outrage. Click here for the full story.