White House Pink Ribbon Installed For Breast Cancer Awareness
Nearly 200,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year, and the White House is showing its support for National Breast Cancer Awareness Mont...
Nearly 200,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year, and the White House is showing its support for National Breast Cancer Awareness Mont...
Huffington Post/AP | Posted 06.16.2009 | Politics
Scroll down for full video and text Making her debut as a commencement speaker before a crowd of 12,000 on Saturday, FIrst Lady Michelle Obama praise...
AP | NATASHA T. METZLER | Posted 06.13.2009 | Living
WASHINGTON — For Michelle Obama, corporate law turned out not to be the career she wanted to look back on at the end of her life. "I had to ask...
Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics
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Barry Michael Cooper | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
As the world gazed upon this regal African American woman in her royal blue dress, there were tears of grief shed for women just like Michelle who endured water hoses, police batons, and dogs over 40 years ago.
Darryle Pollack | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
Call me corny -- but tonight as I watched Michelle Obama and her daughters, I couldn't help flashing back to the beautiful young family who personified elegance and hope in 1960.
Hermene Hartman | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
You heard a love story. You heard that her dream had come true. You heard a grateful daughter. You heard the future of what the country should and could be
Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
Marc Ambinder reports that Michelle Obama's speech was a success: A senior Obama official says that, "to a high degree of confidence," the campaign ...
Adam Hanft | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
The one thing I haven't read in all the praise and accolades is the simple fact that this was a speech Michelle should never have had to make.
The Nation | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
Michelle Obama's elegant convention speech wowed Democrats last night, but she's not done. Ms. Obama is speaking this afternoon at an EMILY's List ga...
Allison Stevens | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
If her husband wins the White House, Michelle Obama, in fact, may be the best friend women's rights advocates have had in the White House for a long time.
CNN | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
Michelle Obama received a phone call after her widely praised speech Monday night -- from Hillary Clinton. The Obama campaign confirms the New York s...
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
To the theme of 'Great Society,' Michelle Obama added a new and compelling refrain: the world as it should be -- not a destination, so much as it is the energy that both unites us and drives us forward.
Danielle Crittenden | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
I realized last night we were witnessing something historic: Michelle Obama is the first woman to embrace/embody a post-feminist view of a presidential spouse.
Think Progress | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
In a speech last night at the Democratic convention, Michelle Obama "began a weeklong effort to present her husband -- and his entire family -- as emb...
The Huffington Post | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
James Carville was the convention's harshest critic: "If this party has a message," he said on CNN, "it's done a hell of a job hiding it tonight, I ...
Mary Lyon | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics
Michelle Obama humanized herself as what she really is -- a mom, a wife, a daughter, a sister, and a strong, brilliant, and compassionate woman. This was sorely needed.
AP | CHRISTOPHER WILLS | Posted 09.25.2008 | Chicago
DENVER — Michelle Obama declared "I love this country" Monday as she sought to reassure the nation that she and her husband Barack share America...
Huffington Post | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics
Read about Ted Kennedy's speech to the Democratic Convention. Scroll down to watch Michelle Obama's speech, and to read the full text. The AP repor...
The Uptake | Posted 09.25.2008 | Home
Michelle Obama addresses the DNC during "prime time" tonight. There's a lot riding on that speech. For some perspective, we talked to Wendi C. Thomas, a columnist from The Commercial Appeal Memphis who is writing about the racial history being made at the convention.
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics
***UPDATE: SEE BELOW FOR NEW SPEECH EXCERPTS*** When Michelle Obama takes to the podium this evening at the Pepsi Center in Denver, she'll be deliver...
Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 10.27.2009 | Impact