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WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 22: Singer-songwriter Carole King speaks after being awarded by U.S. President Barack Obama the 2013 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song at the White House on May 22, 2013 in Washington, DC. The Gershwin Prize for Popular Song recognizes artists for lifetime achievements in musical expression.

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  • First lady honors outstanding libraries, museums

    -- Michelle Obama says the nation's libraries and museums are creating better, more informed citizens and doing it with fewer resources.The first lady commented Wednesday at the White House as she helped award public service medals to 10 institutions.Recipients   Read more »

  • President Obama at Boston service for marathon bomb victims

    an interfaith service to remember the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are set to appear at "Healing Our City: An Interfaith Service" at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross at 11 a.m.The event was open   Read more »

  • Michelle Obama accidentally says she's a 'busy single mother'

    Obama's fashion choices might be flawless, but the First Lady isn't immune to an on-camera flub every now and again.In an interview Thursday with a Burlington, Vt. TV station, she accidentally referred to herself as a "busy single mom," when talking about   Read more »

  • Michelle Obama praises Jackie Robinson movie '42'

    Obama says a new movie chronicling the rise of baseball great Jackie Robinson , including the racial discrimination he suffered on and off the ballfield, left her and the president visibly moved after they saw it over the weekend.She said the film, "42," also   Read more »

  • Michelle Obama is a Vogue cover girl second time around

    term, second Vogue cover. So it goes for Michelle Obama, who looks startlingly chic on the cover of the April issue of Vogue magazine, arguably Americas fashion bible.FLOTUS dons a structured, smart sheath designed by her most recent go-to designer, Reed Krakoff   Read more »

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About Michelle Obama

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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