Michelle Obama

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.