In Tuskegee speech, she was talking about ‘double duty’ blacks have to our country and race.
I hope people who attended Tuskegee University’s commencement on Saturday got Michelle Obama’s message. I hope they paid more attention to what she said than how some news media organizations portrayed the first lady’s speech to graduates of the historically black Alabama school.
I don’t want them to think People magazine got it right when it ran as the headline her dismay over being pictured as a f
 U.S. President Barack Obama (2nd L) and First Lady Michelle Obama (R) hold hands with daughters Malia (L) and Sasha as they walk from the White House to St. John’s Church for Sunday services, in Washington, October 27, 2013. (CREDIT: REUTERS/MIKE THEILER) President Barack Obama and wife Michelle both worked minimum-wage jobs before they got law degrees: a character-building experience they said they also want their teenage daughters to share. The president scooped ice cream at Baskin-Robbins, |
Michelle Obama says she rarely ventures into the West Wing to dispense policy advice to her husband -- and sometimes holds back from talking shop when the president has finished work for the day.
In an ABC "Nightline" interview airing in part Monday night, the first lady said her attention is focused on her own projects. She has taken the lead on issues such as reducing childhood obesity and supporting military families.
"I rarely step foot in the West Wing," Obama told "Nightline" anchor
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