Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is the wife of the 44th and incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, and is the first African-American First Lady of the United States. Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Obama attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School before returning to Chicago and to work at the law firm Sidley Austin, where she met her future husband. Subsequently, she worked as part of the staff of Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, and for the University of Chicago Medical Center.
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When Michael Kors isn’t running his multi-milliondollar fashion empire or airkissing equally bronzed celebrities, the superstar American designer is often engaged in the not-unambitious task of alleviating hunger. H ...
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Independent investigative journalist Amy Goodman is the host of "Democracy Now" and author of The Silenced Majority, a magnificent look at diverse groups of Americans engaged in resistance to plutocrats and jingoists. She wrote this column before Pr ...
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Jason Merritt/Getty Images Photograph by: Jason Merritt , Getty Images Beyoncé and Oprah Winfrey were the top celebrities on the Forbes magazine list of 100 most powerful women. Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg and U.S. first lady Michelle Obama dom ...
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Crosby loves ice cream, so she decided to let First Lady Michelle Obama know why. "I wrote why I thought it was healthy if you could eat it in moderation," Crosby explains. A sweet thought that received a big response. "I saw 'The White House' i ...
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