SOURCE: PRAISEPHILLY Michelle Obama recently visited Philadelphia and spoke at the Constitution Center about growing up in Chicago. She talked about growing up on the South Side of Chicago and how her father worked hard everyday just to keep food on their table. Her emotions started to come to the surfaces after she started to reminisce on her […]

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Michelle Obama was with the single ladies this weekend, joining 5,500 fans at a Beyonce concert in Atlantic City. The first lady was with daughters Sasha and Malia at Revel Resorts, where Beyonce performed two dozen songs Saturday night. Obama’s husband, President Barack Obama, did not attend. Gov. Chris Christie was among the sell-out crowd packed into […]

President Obama does not fault his vice president for forcing his hand on the issue of same-sex marriage because “it came out of a generosity of spirit,” he said in a wide-ranging interview on ABC’s “The View” this morning. “When you get to know Joe Biden, he is the most honest, straightforward guy,” Obama said. […]

  First lady Michelle Obama says her “heart goes out to the parents” of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, the unarmed teenager who was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida. Mrs. Obama says in an interview with NPR that all parents understand “the tragedy of that kind of loss.” Martin was shot by neighborhood […]

First Lady Michelle Obama has a new pen pal in Beyonce Knowles. Two days after the singer and new mom, 30, wrote a heartfelt and handwritten thank you letter on her official website, the President’s wife, 48, responded via Twitter Friday. “Thank you for the beautiful letter and for being a role model who kids everywhere can look up to,” Obama told Knowles. […]

On her new website, Beyonce has written an open letter to our First Lady. She has shared her thoughts on Michelle being a role model for her baby girl, Blue Ivy. Beyonce writes: Michelle Obama is a force. An empowered inspiration not only to women, but a living example to us all.  

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First lady Michelle Obama covers the May issue of Ebony magazine, which is due out on April 17. According to various outlets, Ebony editor-in-chief Amy DuBois Barnett chats with America’s Mom-in-Chief in the issue about how she balances family life with executing her national initiatives — and how important her mother is to her. According […]

  First Lady Michelle looks naturally fab and fresh on the cover of May’s Ebony Magazine. Inside she opens up on motherhood and more. On What’s Important to Instill in their Daugthers Sasha and Malia: Barack and I feel that our greatest responsibility is to raise two productive, respectful, kind empathetic young women. My husband […]

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WASHINGTON — Opening another front in her nearly year-old campaign to support service families, first lady Michelle Obama on Wednesday unveiled a new push for…

The first lady will appear on the “Late Show with David Letterman” on March 19. Mrs. Obama will discuss her Joining Forces initiative, which supports military families, and her plans for the program’s one-year anniversary. CBS, which airs Letterman’s show, says this will be Mrs. Obama’s first appearance on the program. But she has made […]

On October 3, 1992, after a three year courtship, President Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson were pronounced man and wife by Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright…

First Lady Michelle Obama and Jimmy Fallon face off for fitness. On Tuesday night’s “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,” the First Lady invited Fallon to the White House for a little friendly physical competition. Though the contest got rough at times, it was all for a good cause: to promote Mrs. Obama’s “Let’s Move” initiative, […]