Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama, in a video released Tuesday, accused President Trump of racism and of lying to the American people about the deadliness of COVID-19, and she encouraged young voters and people of color to make a plan to cast their ballots.“It’s painful to think that months into this crisis, this…

Topline In a new plea to vote for Democratic nominee Joe Biden in the upcoming election, former first lady Michelle Obama, who has been a vocal critic of the Trump administration over recent months, sharply criticized the president for “incompetence” on all fronts, detailing everything from his response to the…

Andraéa LaVant wants you to know that she’s many things, a living snapshot of humanity’s vast kaleidoscope. She’s a Black woman. A native Midwesterner. A college graduate and business owner. A daughter, sister and friend.LaVant is also among the estimated 61 million people in the U.S., according to federal data,…

When Michelle Obama met Barack Obama in 1989 at the Chicago law firm where they both worked, it was not exactly love at first sight — even though he was quite popular around the office. “In my experience, you put a suit on any half-intelligent Black man and white people…

Mark Wilson/Getty ImagesIf behind every great man there's an even greater woman, what sort of superlative should be reserved for Michelle Obama? Well, the former first lady might implore you to turn it down a notch, for starters. While on her cross-country book tour in support of her best-selling memoir, Becoming—they had…

On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump delivered a typically over-the-top boast during his debate against Joe Biden: “I’m the one that brought back football.” He must have been yearning for a return to normalcy—for packed Big Ten football stadiums filled with fans overstuffed and often over-lubricated from a morning of…

Michelle Obama and Jennifer Lopez may be two of the most famous women in the world, but at home, the powerhouse women are known simply as “mom.”In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, they’re able to do a lot more hands-on parenting than their normally busy schedules would allow. In a new Instagram…

Jennifer Lopez remembered Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with former first lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday (Sept. 22) for the latter's day-long National Voter Registration Day Instagram Live takeover. As part of her partnership with When We All Vote, Obama invited J.Lo, Zendaya, DJ Khaled, H.E.R., Jeezy, DJ D Nice and more stars for her jam-packed…

Book publishers have had a chaotic year. There have been protests and walkouts over Woody Allen’s memoir and the industry’s lack of diversity—unprecedented activism in an industry with little history of mobilization. One Big Five publisher, Simon & Schuster, is up for sale; two have new CEOs. And then there…

It was in 2014 that the “rolling coal” phenomenon was first brought to our attention. Conservative drivers, a flurry of articles reported that summer, had taken to modifying their trucks to produce comically large and thick plumes of black smoke that were often directed at the drivers of eco-friendly vehicles—a…