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In any society, power decides whose voice becomes truth.

Power decides whose voice becomes truth and whose reputation has staying power

When dominant narratives control how communities or individuals are perceived, reputations are reduced to stereotypes, biases emerge, achievements are undervalued and potential…

Graça Machel, a vocal advocate for women’s rights, understands that, to achieve the United Nations sustainable development goals, young women have to be empowered. (Gulshan Khan/AFP)

Ma Africa leads the way

Graça Machel is the example of someone reaching out to other women and lifting them up

Former first lady Michelle Obama begins her book tour with a stop at the Whitney M. Young Magnet High School in Chicago. (Kamil Krzaczynski/Reuters)

Michelle Obama slams Trump in new book

Obama also says she was surprised that so many American women voted for the ‘misogynist’ Trump over Hillary Clinton

At the start of the Golden Globes on Sunday

Oprah 2020? Awards speech ignites frenzied speculation

Republican strategist Rick Wilson suggested Trump’s election, once unthinkable, had rewritten the rules.

US President Barack Obama
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WATCH LIVE: Inauguration of US president-elect Donald Trump

Trump becomes the 45th president of the United States today.

Michelle Obama – known as ‘The Closer’ – once more captured her audience in a powerful
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Michelle Obama destroys Trump: The measure of any society is how it treats its women

In an emotional plea, Obama asked voters to reject Donald Trump for the sake of children and future generations.

US first lady Michelle Obama speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia
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Michelle Obama’s elegant takedown of Donald Trump: ‘When they go low, we go high’

Read the full transcript of the first lady’s speech at the Democratic National Convention, in which she endorsed Hillary Clinton and slammed Trump.

Melania Trump

Melania at a loss for her own words at the Republican National Committee

The wife of presidential candidate Donald Trump has little in common with fellow US immigrants.

Jill Scott not only sings

Black out the media’s unbearable whiteness

To change a world in which news of white people overshadows that of black people, seek out media that take "the other" seriously, says Stefanie Jason.

Michelle Obama receives a book from Peking University Communist Party secretary Zhu Shanlu after her speech.

Michelle Obama tells Chinese students internet freedom is a universal right

The US first lady addressed a group of Peking University students while on a tour of China to build goodwill through soft diplomacy.

Michelle Obama picks disaster heroes, gay athlete as speech guests

The White House has filled Michelle Obama’s seating area at the State of the Union address with people who represent issues important to her.

US President Barack Obama has ruled out travel bans to and from Ebola-infected areas

Obamas to travel to SA for Madiba memorial

The White House says US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will travel to South Africa next week to pay respects to Nelson Mandela.

Barak and Michelle Obama.

Obama will not visit sick Mandela

US President Barack Obama’s South African schedule does not include a visit to former president Nelson Mandela, who is critically ill in hospital.

Barack and Michelle Obama.

The Obamas are coming to SA

Barack Obama will be coming to South Africa as the president of the US for the first time at the end of June as part of a presidential tour.

Inaugural fashion: Michelle Obama sports Jason Wu

The biggest questions around the US president’s inaugural celebrations have not been about what Barack Obama would say but what his wife would wear.

Biggest Obama event this weekend? Michelle’s new hair

US President Barack Obama says his wife Michelle’s new hairstyle was the most "significant" event over the weekend of his second inauguration.

Michelle Obama took a few subtle digs at her husband’s rival for the US presidency.
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Michelle Obama steps up to bat for Barack

First lady Michelle Obama has urged American voters to give her husband four more years to fix the struggling US economy.