Michelle Obama Watch

  Today in a stunning ceremony at the Smithsonian Museum of American History, First Lady Michelle Obama donated her fabulous inaugural gown to the institution. The gown was worn to the ten inaugural balls held in Washington, D.C. on that bitterly cold night in January. The formal induction of the gown was an invitation only event that included students from the Huntington High School Fashion Design and Illustration Program in Long Island, New York. In 2009 the school challenged its design and illustration ... Read More

Yesterday First Lady Michelle Obama celebrated International Women’s Day at the White House. Since 1911 International Women’s Day has celebrated the economic, political, and social achievements of women in the past, present, and future. It seemed only fitting that we usher in a new era of Michelle Obama Watch by making blogosphere history and sending our very first Washington, DC Correspondent to the White House. We are the first Black owned and operated (all by women) blog to send a Correspondent to the ... Read More

Yesterday First Lady Michelle Obama  visited Brinkley Middle & Pecan Park Elementary Schools, in Jacksonville, Mississippi, as part of her Let's Move! campaign to reduce childhood obesity in a generation and promote healthy eating. Mrs Obama was greeted by loud cheers and applause. This is truly a non-partisan issue that requires all who love children to make healthy changes. As Mom-In-Chief Michelle Obama knows that there are times that you must motivate by encouraging positive behavior and she did exactly that when she visited the  schools. Brinkley ... Read More

Yesterday First Lady Michelle Obama celebrated the 106th birthday of famed children's author Dr Seuss at the National Education Association's (NEA) 2010 Read Across America Day. Mrs Obama was joined by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and NEA President Dennis Van Roekel. Read Across America Day's goal is  to spread the importance of reading and education. In honor of Dr Seuss the First Lady read The Cat In The Hat and then took questions from the children in the audience with the Education Secretary.  Posted by Aminah Hanan     Read More

 First Lady Michelle Obama  has embarked on an ambitious goal, to eliminate food deserts in 7 years. But what are food deserts? Let us define them before we talk about the goal that she has set for us as a nation. In the video below  FLOTUS explains what food deserts are  and her plan to eliminate them as well as the implications that food deserts have on a community. Eliminating food deserts will lead to the creation of  healthy food oases in both rural & urban ... Read More

Today First Lady Michelle Obama hits the road and takes her Let's Move, childhood obesity prevention campaign to Philadelphia. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack will accompany Mrs Obama.  This one day road trip will highlight a pillar of the Let's Move program: access to healthy, affordable food.  According to the White House Press Office, "They will make local stops to showcase the widespread problem of “food deserts” and the steps Philadelphia has taken to get healthy, affordable food to ... Read More

First Lady Michelle Obama has been making the media rounds to introduce America to her new initiative to fight childhood obesity. This morning she was on the Tom Joyner Morning Show to discuss Let's Move and Good Morning America and Larry King Live yesterday. I'm excited about the new initiative and anticipating to see how communities around the country come together not just to make children more healthy, but adults as well. Posted by Aminah Hanan         Read More

Yesterday high school students from across the country participated in a workshop to learn about how music influenced the Civil Rights Movement. A number of entertainers participated, including John Legend, Smokey Robinson, John Mellencamp, Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon and Toshi Reagon. Later that night, due to an impending snow storm, “In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement” was moved up one day and the concert took place in the East Room. Yolanda Adams, Joan Baez, ... Read More

Yesterday was a busy day for First Lady Michelle Obama. She joined President Obama and Cabinet members as he signed a Memorandum on Childhood Obesity. The Memorandum established a task force, headed by the First Lady, to encourage children to exercise more and adopt healthier eating habits. Later she was joined by local students, cabinet members, and athletes to kick off Let's Move, a new nationwide campaign to combat childhood obesity. To find out more about Let's Move click here. Thanks to an impending snow storm, ... Read More

Courtesy of the White House Press Office ... Due to inclement weather, “In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement” has been moved to tonight at 8:00PM EST in the East Room. The President will deliver opening remarks. The remarks are pooled press. The concert will be streamed live on http://www.whitehouse.gov/live.  Participants include Yolanda Adams, Joan Baez, Natalie Cole, Bob Dylan, Jennifer Hudson, John Legend, John Mellencamp, Smokey Robinson, Seal, the Blind Boys of Alabama, the Howard University ... Read More