Becoming

When I was young, Englewood had been a rough neighborhood but not necessarily as deadly as it ...

At one point, one of the social workers interjected, saying to the group, “Eighty degrees and ...

their community. Even after the horror of Newtown, Congress appeared determined to block any measu ...

I 24 n the spring of 2015, Malia announced that she’d been invited to the prom by a boy she kind of ...

elegant bare-shouldered top. She looked beautiful and about twenty-three years old. By my reckoning, we did manag ...

begun selling the iPhone in June 2007, about four months after Barack announced his candidacy for pres ...

L with me for photos in an online campaign to urge people to sign up for health- care coverage. They ...

over, our girls would enjoy a baseball game in Havana, walk along the Great Wall of China, and vis ...

W While Malia toured Columbia that afternoon, I was put into a secure holding area designated by ...

All these years later, I was thankful for the progress I saw. In 2015, I was still making visits to W ...

T Clementa Pinckney, who had been one of nine people killed in a racially motivated shooting ear ...

dinner with the girls, and then Barack had disappeared into the Treaty Room to flip on ESPN and catch u ...

eye contact. We bypassed the elevator, moving quickly down a cramped stairwell. I could hear dre ...

A suddenly we were outdoors. The humid summer air hit our faces. I could see fireflies blin ...

presidency, to sub for Barack during his weekly address to the nation, speaking emotionally about how we ...

T weeks, memorizing every beat to every song. The goal was to have it look fun and light, but behin ...

F was still trying to get him to hurry up. One afternoon in April 2016, the two of us took a helic ...

decorated with sunflowers and purple fabric. For my final round of commencements as First Lady, I spoke ...

I Barack sat next to me in a folding chair. I could see the tears brimming behind his sunglass ...

who you are; it reveals who you are.” This time, I was stumping for Hillary Clinton, Barack’s o ...